Fix slow mobile user logins

Apr 10, '08 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

A mobile user account can take forever to login if you are at a different location, but have an internet connection. To login a mobile account, OS X will first try to connect the Open Directory server. If you have a domain search list in your network preferences that lists your company's domain, this can cause long timeouts.

To fix this, remove the company's domain from the DNS search list, and ask your company's administrators if they can specify this as a DHCP parameter.

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