03-28-2008, 04:49 PM
Every 90 days here too.
5 years ago we had Panther, authenticating via LDAP on Xserves and AppleTalk printers. LDAP would sometimes fail but the worst that would happen would be you'd have to reboot your Mac.
Today, we run Active Directory on Tiger but using Centrify to authenticate the login back to a Windows box introduces a plethora of hellish foibles. No AppleTalk and now Bonjour has also been blocked, because our LAN's DNS is as good as useless. First time I've ever used a Mac that couldn't browse for printers, but that's "progress" for you when IT remains Apple-ignorant.
Ironically, amid all the "we're going to be switching to PCs any day now" rumors, the login issues are moving us to Leopard (and maybe Intel Macs) because half the problem is Tiger, not the Windows server.
5 years ago we had Panther, authenticating via LDAP on Xserves and AppleTalk printers. LDAP would sometimes fail but the worst that would happen would be you'd have to reboot your Mac.
Today, we run Active Directory on Tiger but using Centrify to authenticate the login back to a Windows box introduces a plethora of hellish foibles. No AppleTalk and now Bonjour has also been blocked, because our LAN's DNS is as good as useless. First time I've ever used a Mac that couldn't browse for printers, but that's "progress" for you when IT remains Apple-ignorant.
Ironically, amid all the "we're going to be switching to PCs any day now" rumors, the login issues are moving us to Leopard (and maybe Intel Macs) because half the problem is Tiger, not the Windows server.