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Hello everyone, I know this has not very much to do with Casper but I saw that many of you guys manage MCX from OD and thought asking here...

When I attempt to bind a Mac with Lion 10.7.3 to my Open Directory server (10.6.8), the hyphens in the computer name (sharing name) are converted to underscores. This is immediately visible if I open Directory Utility to manually bind the client.
I have successfully used hyphens in the past and still don't have a problem with with joining Snow Leopard clients with hyphens in the computer name.

Example:

department-office-01 -> department_office_01$

The underscores are reflected in the ApplePasswordServer.Server.log file as well as the LDAP entries.

Same result if I use Casper Directory Binding (of course).

Has anyone ever experienced this? Ideas?
Is this character not accepted anymore with Lion clients?

Thank you
Carlo

Seeing the same when binding 10.7.x clients to our AD.

Oh yes, correct, I forgot to mention that.
Here it seems that - at least with Casper Directory Bindings - I can use the dash within sharing name/hostname despite manually binding it to AD with Directory Utility automatically convert them to underscore.
For what I could see, on the other hand I cannot create an AD workstation (object, server side) with the underscore within its name as it is considered a non-standard character...

Sounds like it's just using the machine name instead of the 'friendly' name.

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