Hi Tomasz, Thank you for pointing this out, I some how missed your earlier posts. So you believe that he has not configured his DNS suffix properly on his Mac's TCP/IP Stack - Client. I think you hit the nail on the head.
Sincerely, Jose Medeiros ADP | National Account Services ProBusiness Division | Information Services 925.737.7967 | 408-449-6621 CELL -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tomasz Onyszko Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 2:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] MAC and DNS - off topic 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. -- Tomasz Onyszko http://www.w2k.pl List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
