This is another link that may also be helpful: http://www.ku.edu/acs/documentation/docs/email/dnssearch.shtml
Mac users (OS 9 and earlier) 1. Go to the Apple menu in the upper left of your desktop and select Control Panels from the pop-up menu. 2. Go to TCP/IP on the pop-up menu (or double-click on the TCP/IP icon). Under "Additional search domains" field type in home.ku.edu. 3. If you have a listing for mail.ukans.edu delete it. (If you have a listing for mail.ku.edu you can keep it.) 4. Go to the File menu and select Quit. When asked if you want to save changes, select Yes. Launch Outlook. Mac OS X users 1. Under the Apple menu select System Preferences... 2. Under Internet & Network select Network. 3. In the Show pull-down menu, select your connection type (e.g. Built in Ethernet). 4. Under the TCP/IP tab enter home.ku.edu in the Search Domains box. If you have a listing for mail.ukans.edu delete it. (If you have a listing for mail.ku.edu you can keep it.) Sincerely, Jose Medeiros ADP | National Account Services ProBusiness Division | Information Services 925.737.7967 | 408-449-6621 CELL ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Medeiros, Jose Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 4:16 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] MAC and DNS - off topic Hmm.. DNS is DNS regardless if is hosted on SBS, or 2000/2003 server. If the DNS name suffix is incorrect on the client, Russell would have to use the fully qualified host name to resolve to other systems that are registered properly in their internal DNS. And yes, the default installation of MAC 10.X still uses the .local, of course us IT people know how to correct this easily. This may help. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;149596 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 Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] MAC and DNS - off topic 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. > > -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com 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/
