Hello,
I'm hoping someone here can give me some insight as to what is going on.
We run an active directory network which is basically all PCs.
We do however have two rooms with 12 eMacs in them each. Up until mid December they had been mostly fine but what we are exeriencing now is that they are having real difficulty logging into the active directory.
If i click on the names of the machines eventually i will see one of three things:
1. Green dot- network accounts available. These we can log into.
2. Yellow dot - some network accounts available. These we cant log into.
3. Red dot - no network accounts available. These we cant log into.
My knowledge of Macs is about a 3 on a scale of 1 to 10.
The DHCP server is server 2003
The eMacs are running OS X 10.4.11
I can log into them as local administrator and can browse the network and even get onto the internet when they are unable to log onto Active directory.
What ive done so far...
1. If i unbind and then rebind the mac using directory access they can log in for a while but then randomly they change so that we cant log into them anymore.
2. gave each of the macs an ip reservation on the dhcp server so that they always pick up the same ip address.
3. removed them from Active directory and re added them. even gave them different names.
4. Changed out the switch they were plugged into.
none of these has solved the issue so far so im hoping that somoene who reads these forums might have seen something like this before...
thank you.
I'm hoping someone here can give me some insight as to what is going on.
We run an active directory network which is basically all PCs.
We do however have two rooms with 12 eMacs in them each. Up until mid December they had been mostly fine but what we are exeriencing now is that they are having real difficulty logging into the active directory.
If i click on the names of the machines eventually i will see one of three things:
1. Green dot- network accounts available. These we can log into.
2. Yellow dot - some network accounts available. These we cant log into.
3. Red dot - no network accounts available. These we cant log into.
My knowledge of Macs is about a 3 on a scale of 1 to 10.
The DHCP server is server 2003
The eMacs are running OS X 10.4.11
I can log into them as local administrator and can browse the network and even get onto the internet when they are unable to log onto Active directory.
What ive done so far...
1. If i unbind and then rebind the mac using directory access they can log in for a while but then randomly they change so that we cant log into them anymore.
2. gave each of the macs an ip reservation on the dhcp server so that they always pick up the same ip address.
3. removed them from Active directory and re added them. even gave them different names.
4. Changed out the switch they were plugged into.
none of these has solved the issue so far so im hoping that somoene who reads these forums might have seen something like this before...
thank you.