Medeiros, Jose wrote:
Hmm.. SMB ( Server Messaging Block ) connectivity is not your problem. I have
an old Beige G3
Macintosh running Mac OS Tiger 10.4 and have no problem with Microsoft DNS
resolving names, as a matter of Fact at Grand Central Communication we had well
over 10 G5's with Panther 10.3 and our Internal DNS was hosted on the Active
Directory 2000 controllers, and they also had no problems with our Linux and
Solaris systems. This really sounds like a problem with your installation on
your Macintosh. What type of Macintosh and what version of the OS are you
running. Are you running NT 4 servers requiring WINS or is everything Windows
2000 or 2003?
You are partial true - the problem which went out in this conversation
is a problem I pointed out some time ago - private namespace with .local
name in AD network and Linux\Mac clients.
Private .local namespace is a namespace reserved for multicast DNS in
its specification:
http://www.multicastdns.org/
Every DNS query for .local namespace on system which supports multicast
DNS is sent to multicast address -> thus in Windows AD environment with
.local domain it causes a problems, DNS query never reaches the DNS
server and client can't find a domain.
That's why we should avoid using .local namespace for AD domain name in
non heterogeneous environments.
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