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Re: Antwort: MAC OS X clients and OpenLDAP [Virus checked]

To: denis.havlik@t-mobile.at
Subject: Re: Antwort: MAC OS X clients and OpenLDAP [Virus checked]
From: Michael Bartosh <mbartosh@4am-media.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:23:07 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: Alexei Monastyrnyi <alexeim@orcsoftware.com>, openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org, owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <OF6C9FFEB3.69181E32-ONC1256E76.00403667-C1256E76.0040937A@t-mobile.at>
References: <OF6C9FFEB3.69181E32-ONC1256E76.00403667-C1256E76.0040937A@t-mobile.at>

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 denis.havlik@t-mobile.at wrote:

> >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.
>
> I have 0 experience with Macs, but I've been trying to use "zeroconf" with
> Mandrake Linux some time ago, and run in a somewhat similar problem. I
> believe Macs use "zeroconf" type of DNS resolution per default.
>
> Make sure your Macs actually use a real DNS server for name resolution,
> and see if the problem goes again.
>
> Obviously I may be completely wrong on this, but it's easy to test...

In some circumstances, the DirectoryService daemon attempts to come up
before the network is available or in a complete state.

The work-around for this is to modify
/etc/mach_init.d/DirectoryService.plist to point to a shell script that
sleeps and then calls /usr/sbin/DirectoryService.

-mab

>
> regards
>         Denis

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- Antwort: MAC OS X clients and OpenLDAP [Virus checked]
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