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How to authenticate with OD on Network Accounts outside of a LAN

Does anybody have a solution for allowing a mac computer client to connect and authenticate against my mac mini OD server outside of its LAN. This is so they can access their network accounts. On the laptop at a friends house using snow leopard, I added successfully the network account server which is running at home to their system. When I log out the user accounts appear however upon passwod authentication, the screen just shakes its head.



What can be done so that my friend can be able to log in.




I could sure use some help from all you lovely people out there. Thank You for your time and God Bless.




Joe

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Home and Company Server

Posted on Jan 28, 2012 8:19 PM

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Jan 29, 2012 12:17 AM in response to TeenTitan

Yes the server shows up in the network account server window with a green light in the OS X account preferences. The login screen even shows all the user accounts available as well. It just doesnt take the passwords to them. However inside the LAN at the business there is no problem once one is connected to the router. All ports for this service are enabled for this specific service as well.

Jan 31, 2012 11:00 PM in response to Joe Petres

Have you considered enabling the account to be Mobile Accounts? that way even when the network is down, say on an airplane or where ever, they could sitll log into their computers?


Have you tried turning off the firewall? or DMZ the Mac Server? (incase of a port issue) if it works, then you know where to look.


I assume you have: 389, 636, 625, 2336, 4120, 749, 88, 4511


Along the same lines, do you know if they're directly online; or behind a firewall from where ever they're trying to conenct?


Is the OD set to accept all kind of authetication? or only specific porticals? KDC vs Hash, extra. if some login methods are disabled, have you tried enabling them?


Also you could try looking at the secure.log to see if it's spitting out an error message.


you could also try turning on debugging, and seeing what shows up in the log. Mac OS X Server v10.5, 10.6: Enabling Directory Service debug logging

How to authenticate with OD on Network Accounts outside of a LAN

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