Re: Mac <-> Active Directory

In article <BE7EFAB0.32D%ralph.scharping@xxxxxx>,
Office 2004 Test Drive-Benutzer <ralph.scharping@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I might be wrong here - if that should be the case, I would appreciate a
> hint on where to go.
>
> I am a PC-Professional and just bought a Mac Mini to get to know "the other
> world" a bit. After a period of basic familiarisation with Mac OS 10.3.8 I
> am now trying to hook up the Mac to a Windows Server. I was quite
> successful with basic SMB access, GroupWise Clients, Notes Clients, RDV and
> Entourage and am now aiming at the Active Directory Client.
>
> My machine is plugged into the same collision domain as two Windows Servers
> (2000 SP4 and 2003 SP1) sharing one Active Directory domain. There are no
> internal firewalls. The Mac has been awarded an IP from the appropriate
> subnet and also has access to the DNS-Service hosted by the Windows Servers.
> NSLOOKUP used from darwin produces quite reasonable results forward and
> backwards including -q=ns lookups and the sort, however, connecting to the
> Terminal Services with RDV does only work if I enter the IP - not the name,
> which bothers me somewhat.

Hi Ralph!

Is your DHCP server also handing out your network's Internet-style
domain name suffix (such as mynetwork.lan)? Typically, your Mac needs to
know that it's a member of "mynetwork.lan" in order to know that
ExchangeServer.mynetwork.lan is within its own network.

You can manually enter this information in Apple Menu --> System
Preferneces --> Network --> TCP/IP --> Search Domains.

By the way, make sure your domain suffix name does NOT end in .local,
which is suggested by Microsoft when setting up a simple network. This
can conflict with the Mac OS X machines because they use .local
themselves as a broadcast suffix for browsing subnets.

Hope this points your in the right direction!

bill
--
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)
.

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