Is the firewall active on the mac might check MS KB 828263
"Nik Price" <Nik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:d2s9kc$8bb$1$830fa7b3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Can anyone shed any light on a problem I am having? I am trying to add a
> mac mini running a fully up to date version of OS X to my Windows 2003
> Domain. The mac obtains it's ip via DHCP fine, and I manually enter the
DNS
> IP. NSLOOKUP and DIG resolve hostnames from IP's and IP's from hostnames
> perfectly, but if I try to PING the 2003 server by hostname, ping cannot
> resolve the hostname, but I can PING by IP number!
>
> I want to use the Active Directory on the windows server, and the exchange
> server, but none of these will resolve by hostname, which I assume is
> related to the same problem as the ping issue.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
>
>
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