Binding to AD in Leopard

[Noah Abrahamson]

On Feb 4, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Mike Friedman wrote:

> Have any of you run into problems with binding to Active Directory  
> in Leopard? I am attempting to bind two brand new iMacs to a brand  
> new AD domain (new SBS 2003 server). When trying to use the  
> Directory Utility, I get various network errors (edsAuthFailed and  
> edsCannotAccessSession are the two most common) and am unable to  
> bind these machines to AD.
>
> I did some googling around and this appears to be a fairly common  
> problem. Have any of you run into this, and solved it?

Yes, it's common; yes, those of us with multiple DCs have encountered  
it, and no, there is no solution. But there is (at least one)  
workaround that may work for you: pre-create the computer account in  
AD. 10.5.2 is being seeded to developers and purportedly addresses  
this/these issue(s).


Noah


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Noah Abrahamson
Stanford University