Possibly slightly O.T.: Why FQDN required to do simple bind with "ldapsearch"?

Hi,

I was doing some testing, using ldapsearch from a Solaris machine, to access Active Directory. I was trying to use a simple bind, and initially could not get a successful access, until I started using a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) for the hostname parameter.

I'm not sure if this is more of an AD question, or an ldapsearch question, but I was wondering if anyone might know why I had to use the FQDN for the ldapsearch hostname parameter in order for the simple bind to succeed?

Thanks,
Jim
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