[Samba] Hostname or alias question

[Avron Gray]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for responding. While I have tried changes to the netbios flags
before, I have run the following combinations again - just in case I'd
missed something before:
1. netbios aliases = webservice \ netbios name    = snswiki
2. netbios aliases = webservice \ netbios name    = webservice
3. netbios aliases = webservice 

Each combination results in a "trust relationship between the
workstation and the primary domain have failed" error.

Only connecting with the host's actual name results in an authenticated
connection.

I suspect that this may be possible by mucking about with
ActiveDirectory...

- Avron

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Rippl [mailto:rippls at woodlandschools.org] 
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 9:49 AM
To: Avron Gray
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Hostname or alias question

There's a global 'netbios aliases' parameter in smb.conf.  Take a look
at man smb.conf, might be what you need...



Avron Gray wrote:
> Rephrasing my original question...
>
>
> I have a Red Hat host:
> Hostname - snswiki.domain.com
> I have samba 3.3.3 installed using ADS for authentication
>
> How can I make this host be available to Windows users as a different
> hostname?
>
> Actual hostname   \\snswiki\docs
> AND Also Known As
> Alias hostname    \\webservice\cocs
>
>
> Any suggestions that you can provide, would be great. This is similar
to
> a question that I asked in January, but still do not have a solution.
> Prior to upgrade, a DNS alias provided this functionality. The
security
> model does not seem to support it, but that does not change it's
> requirement.
>
> Just looking for ideas, folks...
>
>
>
> Here's my smb.conf:
>
> [global]
> realm                = DOMAIN.COM
> security             = ADS
> workgroup            = DOMAIN
> encrypt passwords    = yes
> server string        = %h Samba %v
> smb ports            = 445
> disable netbios      = yes
> name resolve order   = host
> idmap uid            = 10000-20000
> idmap gid            = 10000-20000
> log file             = /var/log/samba/samba_log.%m
> log level            = 2
> include = /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf.%h
>
>
> - Avron
>   

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Steve Rippl
Technology Director
Woodland School District
360 225 9451 x326