In my environment, it’s about 30 seconds before the “network accounts available” button turns green in loginwindow. BTW, you might want to set your loginwindow to display that as the default rather than the machine name, otherwise you have to click through the other information in loginwindow to get to it. I can’t remember the command off the top of my head, but I originally used the Secrets preference pane add-in to set it that way.

Since my machines are bound to both OD and AD, “network accounts available” shows yellow first (one of the directories the machine is bound to is responding, I’m assuming OD), then goes green after that 30 second wait. Not sure whether it’s an issue of the DCs being a couple miles away in a different building, or if it’s just an issue of loginwindow launching before directoryservices is done preparing itself.

Zanzan

Your DNS entries have to be correct for both forward and reverse queries. This is what trips up many people as Windows clients default back to NetBUI values and skip DNS altogether. MacOS X does not have the luxury.