Re: MAC OS X clients and OpenLDAP

[jamie <jamie@listserv.newberg.k12.or.us>]

I think I remember having this "Stall" I could be mistaken but I think the
problem was DNS. The client was timing out a dns request.

>>>> Alexei Monastyrnyi <alexeim@orcsoftware.com> 04/14/04 6:40 AM >>>
> Dear List.
> 
> I have a strange problem with MAC clients trying to authenticate via
> LDAP.
> After rebooting MAC it takes some several minutes for the client to be
> able
> to log in with username and password stored in LDAP.
> The MAC client refuses to log in with given username/password but it
> works
> after a short while.
> Sometimes it tries to search for username in LDAP (and it gets results,
> I
> can see it in LDAP log file) but sometimes it does not even attempt to
> connect to the server.
> I'm running MAC OS X 10.3 with the latest patches and OpenLDAP 2.2.8 on
> Solaris 9.
> 
> I understand that it perhaps more MAC-related question, but maybe
> someone
> faced this problem in the past...
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hints.
> 
> Alexei Monastyrnyi,
> System Engineer,
> Orc Software AB.
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- Jamie