This assumes that the client knows how to retrieve SRV records though.

The first thing I would say to do in troubleshooting this is to do drum roll
please..... Network trace, yeah you knew I was going to pull that one didn't
you?

Another thing to do would be to use proper authentication with Kerberos.
Vintela and Centrify have products to help this be much less painless than
it can be.

   Joe



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto,
Jorge de
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 3:51 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Major issue not sure if 2003 created this problem

Well.... 
To query for ANY DC (or LDAP server) in the domain you use:
_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.<domain>.<tld>
 
To query for ANY DC (or LDAP server) in a certain site you use:
_ldap._tcp.<site name>._sites.dc._msdcs.<domain>.<tld>
 
If a computer does not know its site it uses the first and if it know its
site it will use the second.
 
I don't know if a linux client is site aware or can be made site aware (with
the samba client?) (and I don't know anything about linux/unix)
 
How is the linux client configured to search for a DC?
 
Cheers,
Jorge

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jennifer Fountain
Sent: Fri 10/14/2005 9:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Major issue not sure if 2003 created this problem




Hi all:
I currently have my linux boxes configured to log into AD via ldap.  I
noticed today that even thought I have the host ip hard coded to a local
server, each box is trying to authenticate to a DC at a remote site.
Has anyone experienced this issue?

Kind Regards,

Jennifer Fountain
Systems Administrator/Security
R&B Distribution
3400 E Walnut Street
Colmar, PA  18915


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