If you haven't already, take a look at the NTP/clock settings on your Cisco equipment (switches, AP's), time settings on your Domain Controller and the local settings on the MACs themselves.
Just a thought. :-)
Best Regards,
Mike
Mike Pilsch
Network Administrator
Fay School
48 Main Street
Southborough, MA 01722
508-490-8249
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>I've had similar issues. I'm running 75 Macbooks with mobile accounts. Most of the time login works fine. On occasion I'll get a machine that will not log in (it was working fine for days). The account is mobile so it should log in whether it hits the
>server or not. After a couple hours the machine works fine again. It's very strange, I have yet to figure out what the issue might be. (I also have Cisco access points)
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>I have about 150 Windows laptops. This issue doesn't occur on the windows side.
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>Christine Moore
>Network Administrator
>Friends Academy
>1088 Tucker Road
>N. Dartmouth, MA 02747
>508-999-1356
>www.friendsacademy1810.org
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>A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>>In order to authethicate to AD or OD MacBook needs to establish connection with the server before login.
>>When on login screen click on space when you normally see date, or serial number (you might have to make multiple clicks). If you see that "Network accounts are not available" the I would say that you definitely have problem with connectivity via
>>wireless.
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>>Possible solution:
>>- If your are using network account consider switching to mobile account (mobile account will allow user to login even when server is not available during login process) . If you are 1to1 program just stay with mobile accounts. If multiple people use
>>the computer you might set up xserve(if you are using it) to clear mobil account from laptops after let's say 5 days in order to avoid clogging the HD with multiple user accounts.
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>>Artur Morka
>>Lowell School
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