Mac – 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

Best Answer

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!