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Can't bind to AD in 10.9 Mavericks

  • October 31, 2013
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  • April 1, 2015

We were having issues on several Macs that we had upgraded from OS X 10.6/10.7 to 10.9. Each of these machines had a previously used Computer Name in AD. We found that creating a new computer name node in AD (and using Capser to rename the Mac to that new name) allowed the Mac to bind with no issues.


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  • August 14, 2015

I just spent a bit wrestling with this myself. What I found that was throwing the error for me was a too-long name for the machine in AD. I was using a 21-character machine name, when I lowered that to 18 characters I was able to join without error.