[gverhoff]

Upgrading to 10.4.9 fixed the issue for me. Finally!!

[gverhoff]

To manage the xp workstation as a user logged into the box, you’ll have to add that user, or that user’s group to the local admins group on the workstation.

I believe that the group policy your refering to in regards to managing windows workstations is absent from Samba service, which gives you the PDC on the mac.

The best place to double check what’s included in the software is http://www.samba.org, they’ll have the complete documentation of the features of the software.

[gverhoff]

First thing to do is check and make sure that the user is added into the administrators group on the XP box. With out that, any domain wide accounts will be treated as user level privileges only.

You’ll probably want to test this with a few test accounts to make sure it works across multiple accounts.

You can also do this by group, the naming is fairly arbitrary but you can add your test accounts into a domain group and then add that group to the local admin group on the specific xp boxes you want to test with.

As for adding those to the admins group at domain join, i’m not a hundred percent sure on this but you will probably have to script it somehow in vbscript or possibly batch files. Hope that info helped.

[gverhoff]

I wouldn’t bother paying the fee, if you’ve got other ppc 10.4.8 servers working, let apple fix their own bug on their dime. I’ve had our Sales Rep and his SE escelate the issue with Apple and haven’t heard of any kind of fix yet.

I haven’t gotten the above script to work either so i’m just sitting on it till 10.4.9 or my SE comes back with a fix. Not a lot of encouragement here, but maybe i can save you a buck or 2.

I’ve had my apple rep tell me it’s a known bug, the folks at apple care are great usually but they’re trained to hear active directory and say $699 please!!

In my opinion it’s a bug if i can get the 10.4.8 ppc working but not the intel 10.4.8. I would seriously doubt that it’s a configuration issue vs a software bug issue.

[gverhoff]

I’ve come across that error before.

It’s usually as a result of not being pointed to a Global Catalog Server, i.e. a dc that supplies the Global Address List to other servers. Windows clients get this info automagically through AD and such but you have to manually point that stuff in OS X.

You’ll want to check that in Entourage -> Tools -> Accounts -> “Exchange Account” Advanced settings with LDAP is configured for your GC. If that alone doesn’t fix it, double check your prefered DC in Directory Services and point it to that GC.

[gverhoff]

Thanks for the info. do you know how to edit that file, I’ve opened it up in a hex editor but i can’t tell where the null value is supposed to go. I’ve tried numerous places within that file but to no avail. Thanks again for the quick response.

[gverhoff]

Had a similar issue with non GC domain controller with server 10.4.7. bound a few times under non gc, everything showed up in contacts and authentication but couldn’t log in to server using domain account. rebooted and everything was blank. re-bound to the gc and everything was smooth first time. Weird because i’d bound to the non gc before in it’s current role with no issues. Strange indeed.

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