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likewise-open package

  1. Bug #205236
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 205236

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote : Re: Likewise Open 4.0.5 doesn't work out of the box in Hardy.

Thanks for the info. If you experience problems with Likewise-Open even with your workaround, please file a separate bug with more information on that error that you shouldn't skip. I'll rename this bug so that it points to ".local domains" since it is specific to them.

I confirm it doesn't work out of the box if the domain you try to join is named "something.local". This is the result of a war between Microsoft and Apple over the .local domain, with Ubuntu siding with Apple:

Ubuntu (like Apple) uses Zeroconf for simple service discovery on LAN, and this makes use of the .local domain. On the other hand, Microsoft AD won't work correctly if its domain name is not served by its own DNS. Using .local for a domain name is therefore a recipe for trouble [1].

If for some reason you have to join an AD domain called "something.local", then you want to disable Zeroconf because the two won't work together. You want the .local DNS domain to be served primarily by the Microsoft DNS and not by Zeroconf. So you edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file accordingly.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local