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May 14, 2006
The Last Stray Sheep in the Fold
As I mentioned in a previous post, the FreeBSD/Samba based household domain controller that I’d set up earlier this year works fine but for one stubborn Dell laptop that refused to join the domain. It kept claiming that it couldn’t find the DC (though it could always do so when using public services on the same server). I finally located the problem today.
The name of my pain is the Norton security suite. It has its own firewall which was really doing the blocking while I kept trying to configure the Windows firewall to allow the required traffic. Once I told Norton to go take a hike — I uninstalled the whole suite as I’ve never liked the Norton utilities — everything went off like clockwork. The laptop joined the domain without any need for manual intervention on the server side.
Filed under Software, Networking, FreeBSD, Samba, Domain Controller, Norton.
Posted by eric at May 14, 2006 10:59 PM