Thursday, March 8, 2012

Slow Login on Snow Leopard Clients Bound to AD

We have received several reports that Snow Leopard clients that are bound to AD are experiencing very slow logins- up to five minutes before the desktop would appear.

One fix is to remove Active Directory/All Domains from the Authentication tab in Directory Services.  Once this is done the login is very fast.

The drawback is that no other user will be able to log into the computer using their AD credentials.

AD password changes done via the login screen or System Preferences/Users/Change Password continue to work.

Full details can be found on Tech Smog.

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