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Friday, August 12, 2011
"Network accounts are unavailable" when logging into OS X Lion
Update: 8/19/11
Apple released 10.7.1 yesterday, so I'm curious to see if it resolves these issues with network accounts. I'll have a chance to test it next week and will update this with what I find. If you're ready this and already tried it please leave a comment as to whether or not it works for you
Original Post
If you use Active Directory user accounts with your Macs, you may run into this issue after upgrading or introducing OS X Lion. Hopefully Apple comes out with an update to fix it soon, but in the meantime there is a workaround. You can add a custom search path to the Authentication tab and that seems to work. Here's a walkthrough:
1. Open System Preferences
2. Go to User & Groups
3. Click Login Options in the lower left. You may have to authenticate first by clicking the lock icon in the lower left.
4. Under Network Account Server, click Edit
5. Select your domain, then click Open Directory Utility
6. At the top, select Search Policy
7. Under the Authentication tab you should see two paths: /Local/Default, and /Active Directory/YourDomain/All Domains, where YourDomain is a placeholder for the name of your domain name. Click the + to add another
8. You should see /Active Directory/YourDomain listed as an additional option. Select it and click Add
9. Move /Active Directory/YourDomain above /Active Directory/YourDomain/All Domains so it has a higher priority
10. Click Apply
11. Reboot and log in
Thanks to juiced2010 at macrumors.com for posting that the solution.
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8 comments:
Brilliant - saved me quite a bit of time, everything was exactly as listed in the steps and worked after adding the /Active Directory/YourDomain to the search path.
Glad to hear it, and hopefully this article will not be needed soon. It all depends on Apple getting their 10.7.2 update out there for the general public, which supposedly has fixes for multiple issues in Lion with regards to Active Directory accounts.
You really are a STAR. I've had a "broken" Mac ever since I upgraded to Lion. You suggestion to add the new AD domain has fixed my mchine and I am now logged onto the AD domain
Thanks a lot !!! I can start enyoing my mac again after the upgrade to lion.
Marcus
Problems at step 7, I dont even have a + sign there so I cant add.
Running 10.7.2, with admin privileges
Here's a screenshot
http://i.imgur.com/EOqqR.png
We just got a Mac mini with 7.0.2 installed and it has the same issues, and these changes don't seem to have an effect.
If you have any other ideas we would appreciate it.
Anonymous, for your screenshot it appears as if the machine is not bound correctly to the Active Directory domain. That's why you don't see what is described in step #7. All you have is the local accounts mapped for authentication. I would suggest rejoining the computer to Active Directory and then looking again. When joined to AD properly, the authentication path will automatically be added there for you to see.
EchoKev, I don't have any other ideas at this time and haven't had much of an opportunity to research this further. However, I do know that a lot of people have said that 10.7.2 was not the fix-all solution they were hoping for. I may have a chance later in the week to do some more testing again, and will post the results of anything I find that may be interesting.
Hi rslygh,
I'm currently researching this issue because I have the same AD behavior with my macs here at the office. Unfortunately your solutions doesn't work for me either.
Somewhere I found the hint, that 7.0.3 is seeded already and that the issue seems to be resolved there... at least for some of the few lucky testers so far. ;-)
Thank you for your work and cheers
Tom
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