I'm a smidge fuzzy on this and Eriq Neale who wrote SBS Unleashed [which
has a chapter on Apple/Mac integration] is our Mac/SBS guru... I do not
believe with the new Max the .local is an issue anymore with 10.4 but if
you have older ones, yes.
Lessons Learned: More Mac .local nonsense:
http://simultaneouspancakes.com/Lessons/archives/2005/05/more_mac_local.shtml
He's hosting a webcast on Mac interop with SBS ...if anyone is
interested you can ping me offline.
Tomasz Onyszko wrote:
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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