[martinh]

I appear to have solved my own problem.

I encountered what appeared to be an unrelated problem after posting this morning:
Workgroup Manager on the OD master suddenly stopped accepting the diradmin authentication and I couldn’t edit user or group records.

I followed suggestions I found at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6664275 to resolve this problem. Specifically, in Server Admin/Open Directory/Settings/Policies/Binding, I unchecked 3 of the 4 security settings I’d turned on (leaving only Disable clear text passwords checked) and then re-booted the OD Master. This allowed me to again authenticate to WGM as diradmin.

I then re-booted the client that had not been able to bind (I did first do a Disk Utility – Repair permissions, but don’t know if that helped), and, lo and behold, I was now able to bind to the OD master.

I don’t like not really understanding exactly what’s going on here, and I’m uneasy about turning off some of those security settings, but at least I’m back in business.

And, thanks sunnyape. I think you were posting just as I was.

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