Friday 21 March 2014

Mac user can't login to Windows domain

Had a quick question this afternoon from someone who had setup a Mac in a Windows domain environment. After setting up and joining the domain they had no problem logging onto the Mac with their Windows username and password. However, seemingly at random they were suddenly unable to login anymore.

It turned out to be quite a simple solution to the problem; the clock on the Mac was out of sync with the Windows domain controller. The Mac was running six minutes faster than it's Windows colleagues. Once the time was corrected the user was able to login to the Mac again with their Windows login.

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