Binding Mac to Win2003R2 AD DC

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beekertx

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I have a Mac G4 that I am attempting to bind to AD. When I attempt to bind I get error:

"An invalid domain and Forest combination was specified. You should enter a fully qualified DNS name for the domain and forest."

DHCP is providing IP and and a HP switch is providing the routing. In Network connection setup I pointed to the client to DNS server to use. NTP is coming from the same server as DNS. I have also set the time server on the machine. I have no problems pinging the IP to these servers, but ping to hostname fails. If I do an NSLookup from that machine using the hostname, I will get a return with the IP.
It would seem the reason I am not able to connect to AD is because the domain name can not be resolved.
OS on the Mac is 10.4.11
DHCP is being provided by a Mac OS X server 10.4.8
DHCP routing is provided by an HP Proliant Switch
DNS is provided by Win2003R2 Domain Controller

Any ideas?
 
If you drop in to the terminal and type host and the fqdn of the server do you get an ip address back if you do try typing the host and the ip address to see if this finds the server.

example

host mail.example.com

you should see a result similar to below

mail.example.com has address 10.0.0.254

host 10.0.0.254

you should see a result similar to below

254.0.0.10. in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mail.example.com

If reverse dns lookup isn't working you won't be able to bind to the AD Server.
 
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