Posts Tagged ‘active directory

If network access is interrupted, a Mac OS X v10.6 client may not be able to reconnect to an Active Directory domain whose name ends in “.local”.

When attempting to access a resource in Active Directory via Kerberos authentication, authentication may not work. The following may appear in the logs when this happens: DirectoryService[26]: GSSAPI Error: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information (Requested effective lifetime is negative or too short).

When using a Mac OS X Wiki Server that is bound to Active Directory, some configuration may be required in order to allow users to authenticate using their Active Directory credentials. This is required because, by default, the wiki server uses CRAM-MD5 authentication, which is not supported by the Active Directory connector. Third-party LDAP servers that are accessed via the LDAPv3 plugin may require the same configuration changes.

Users connecting from clients not bound to Active Directory may be unable to authenticate to SMB shares hosted on a Mac OS X Server that is bound to Active Directory containing Windows Server 2008 domain controllers.

Users connecting from clients not bound to Active Directory may be unable to authenticate to SMB shares hosted on a Mac OS X Server that is bound to Active Directory containing Windows Server 2008 domain controllers.

To allow access to Windows Active Directory users and groups, you must modify the Final Cut Server settings preference file.

Cleartext passwords may be needed for authentication to Address Book Server when using an Active Directory authentication server.

If the DNS suffix of the hostname of your Mac OS X Server v10.6-based server does not match the domain name of your Active Directory domain, for example the Active Directory domain is ad.apple.com, but the Mac OS X Server hostname is server.apple.com, services may not be able to use kerberos properly.


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