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How to set up Active Directory
Authored by: climberbry on Nov 18, '03 05:52:25PM

Anyone have any AD server problems after binding to the domain? After binding with Panther's (10.3) Active Directory feature, our AD server stopped functioning. When we went looking for the problem on the AD server (W2K), we were unable to access "Users and Computers" and were getting this error:

"Naming information cannot be located because:
The target principal name is incorrect.
Contact your system administrator to verify that your domain is properly configured and is currently online.\0"

We went thru several tiers of TS at Apple. No help at all. A couple of them didn't even know Panther's Active Directory feature existed (that makes me feel warm and fuzzy!). Only after talking to Microsoft TS did we resolve the problem. They said our "Machine account secret was out of sync". MS had us run netdom resetpwd to reset the secret. All is back to normal (with Panther not on domain). We still don't know the exact cause, other than Panther seemed to cause it. Additionally, we have heard of other cases of this exact same thing happening with Panther. That was with 10.3. Don't know about 10.3.1 yet...still a little gun shy.

Anyone know if this is a bug, has it been addressed in 10.3.1, or have a workaround?


Pertinent Microsoft KB ARTICLES
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The following KB articles were referenced during the course of this case:

826902 You Cannot Browse the Drives of or Map a Drive to a Domain Controller
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=826902

216498 HOW TO: Remove Data in Active Directory After an Unsuccessful Domain
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=216498

292438 Troubleshooting Journal_Wrap Errors on Sysvol and DFS Replica Sets
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=292438

818742 Overview of the Microsoft Configuration Capture Utility (MPS_REPORTS)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=818742

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A List of Windows 2000 White Papers and Technical Resources
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How to set up Active Directory
Authored by: PaulNelson on Dec 03, '03 11:07:40AM

You need to make absolutely sure you don't enter a domain controller in the Computer ID. You may have provided administrator credentials capable of resetting the password for the computer named in the computer ID field. If Panther's AD plug-in resets a domain controllers password by mistake, you will have the symptoms you describe.



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How to set up Active Directory
Authored by: climberbry on Dec 05, '03 09:12:44AM

Ah yes. I see. Apple, counter intuitively, wants the ID of my mac here, not the name of the AD server, which is what you'd expect to put under the Active directory configuration. Very important! Thanks a million!



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