Please Help. Active Directory Plugin

[thinkopen]

I’ve successfully bound both an XServe and MBP both running 10.5.4 to our Active Directory and everything appears to work initially. However, after about 5 Minutes the Directory Utility reports that the Active Directory server is no longer responding and from that point on the AD plugin never works again. Where can I go to look for diagnostic information? I’ve been working on this for quite a while and it’s really frustrating.

[Patrick Fergus]

Do this before binding:

[url]http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/DirectoryService.8.html[/url]

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DIAGNOSTICS
There are two helpful signals you can send to the DirectoryService daemon to help diagnose problems you
may be having. (Example: % sudo killall -USR1 DirectoryService). USR2 logging automatically turns off
after 5 minutes.

oo USR1

Turns Debug Logging (on/off)

See /Library/Logs/DirectoryService/DirectoryService.debug.log

oo USR2

Turns API Logging (on/off)

See /var/log/system.log
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FWIW:

[url]http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/MacOSXServer/RN-DirectoryServices/index.html[/url]

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Start debugging automatically at startup:

touch /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService/.DSLogAtStart
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The debug log will be long, but it should start you in the right direction.

– Patrick

[thinkopen]

OK, so this looks promising, any idea why I can’t establish a connection to my domain? Does it have anything to do with Packet Signing?

2008-07-11 16:42:33 CDT – T[0xB029A000] – Active Directory: lockLDAPSession – unable to establish a connection to mydomain.ad

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