Over the past several months, my company has been dealing with AD/OD integrations with Lion 10.7.2 and the customerās environment is using ā.localā. If you are not familiar with the history between ā.localā and Apple computers simply put: they donāt mix. PERIOD. It all stems from Apple OS X Clients using the naming convention of āComputerName.localā as its address for Bonjour services. When an Active Directory (AD) environment uses something like ācompany.localā, Lion doesnāt know if you are talking DNS or Bonjour⦠so it just tries everything, thus giving you delayed authentication (login) against your AD controllers.
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