We just recently rolled out Active Directory with kerberos to our PC
users (98% of our systems, NT through XP OSes) and all is finally well
there. Now I get my turn to join the few Macs we have to A.D. and I
keep getting this error every time I try and bind my machine to our
Win2003 Active Directory domain server. This did not happen when we
originally ran A.D. tests against my system in our test lab (surprise
surprise). Everything worked perfectly there.
I have Googled for information about this error and have tried the
following without any luck:
1. Create machine entry first then bind as well as try without such an
entry
2. Made my account a member of the Domain Admins and can successfully
bind my Win2K Virtual PC partition (virtual network adaptor being used
on separate IP address) but can't bind the Mac (local admin on the
Mac).
3. Deleted mcx cache in NetInfo Manager and restarted many times.
4. Modified my A.D. account so that it has direct authority to manage
machine entries.
5. Tried different machine names.
6. Tried both wireless and via wired ethernet connections (AirPort
off).
Setup is two A.D. servers (main and backup) with the main also
performing DNS and licensing roles (possibly other related roles). Mac
is a PowerBook G4 running OS 10.3.7 (current patches) with AirPort
Extreme. All systems are in the same subnet and can talk to each
other. DNS is working as best I can tell.
I have turned on DirectoryServices debug mode and found a reference to
failing to connect to LDAP server error 81 (or sometimes 32). I am
using the A.D. plug-in, not LDAP. This error is at the very end of
the process after many successful authentication log entries with the
same server which makes little sense either.
From some searching others have experienced this with 10.3.3 through
10.3.5 but I have tried all their suggestions without any luck (hence
the above list). I am completely stumped. Anyone else run into this
and found a solution?
Thanks in advance,
Brian Cave, Interface Analyst
Information Services, La Porte Hospital
Office: (219) 325-5436 <mailto:email@hidden>
