Adding Lion client to win2008 Active Directory "Unable to add server. Node name wasn’t found. (2000)”

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I try and bind a Mac running 10.7.3 to a Windows 2008 active directory using System Preferences and Directory Utility. It comes back saying "Unable to add server. Node name wasn’t found. (2000)”. What does this mean? Can anyone help?

Thanks

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '12 at 17:14

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I managed to fix it. Here's how:

set the client's time to the network time from the windows server
deleted the computer account off from the Active Directory
restarted the Mac client!
tried again...works fine

Not really sure what was causing the problem, but it's now working. Thanks for the input!

answered Feb 20 '12 at 17:14

Tim Lings

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Glad you've got it working. Please be sure to mark this answer as "accepted" when you are able. – jscott May 28 '12 at 03:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 08 '13 at 04:01

I had similar issues and resolved it by doing the following: - ensured the mac's time was the same as my domain controllers (i have NTP servers so i used that). kerberos will not tolerate anything greater than 5 minutes skew in time! - updated to the latest apple OSX updates. I was on 10.7.3 and 10.7.5 had significant Active Directory bug fixes.

that's it, worked first time after that. i'd like to point out that i did not create the computer object first, it was created upon joining the domain. Also i just typed in my adminisrative username not domain\username.

Hope this helps someone else.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 23 '13 at 15:24

to paraphrase Monty Python: I have to clear the PRAM a lot.

I've found this fixes a number of binding/login issues when a computer that was joined to AD previously is re-imaged with 10.8, then re-joined to AD. (very slow login for network users, or anomalous errors when you try to join AD, etc)

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 20 '12 at 16:51

I've seen this in Snow Leopard when the OS X client has a strange name. Do you have anything other than letters, numbers, and underscores/dashes in the OS X machine's name? If so, you'll have to remove them before binding to AD. Also, you should make sure that the name is 16 characters or less, though this seems to be less of an issue nowadays than it used to be.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 05 '13 at 15:59

I think the time issue is key, I came across that one before and forgot the solution until I found this post (whilst trying to get another MacBook on the domain). If the time is too far out (in our case it was 20 minutes out) the domain controller will have none of it.

Adding Lion client to win2008 Active Directory "Unable to add server. Node name wasn’t found. (2000)”

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