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I have 10.4 and 10.5 notebooks working fine. I have found some work arounds for this problem, which seems to be affect OS X 10.6 the worst. This posting is provided AS-IS with no warranties or guarantees and confers no

Mac OS X 10.3: How to look up '.local' hostnames via both Bonjour and standard DNS: Īce Fekay, MVP, MCT, MCITP EA, MCTS Windows 2008 & Exchange 2007, MCSE & MCSA 2003/2000, MCSA Messaging 2003, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft MVP - Directory Services. It may have been added as a selectable built in feature in later versions, but I'm not sure. It sets and allows Rendezvous and Bonjour on OSx 10.3 to use DNS instead of its own internal If you haven't seen the following link, which was linked in Mervyn's link to the Mac support site, it provides a script to run on Panther to allow it to join. Server Message Block communication between a client-side SMB. It would have to be set on all the DCs, or add a separate GPO with higher precedence with this being the only setting, in the Domain Controllers OU.

Need to be detuned to allow unsigned SMB traffic.

Just to add to everyone's responses, part of joining or 'binding' a MacOSx using the Active Directory application plug-in that's provided in OSx (assuming you're not using the 'LDAP' feature to bind it), and Phillip hinted at this, is the 20 DCs

Connect mac to windows domain host cannot be found