[Samba] hostname is missing in the output from "smbstatus -b"

[Kris Lou]

This also might be "hostname lookups = no" (by default).

But that also probably depends on some sort of name resolution (DNS), and
you say that you don't have name resolution for clients.

Kris Lou
klou at themusiclink.net


On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 10:34 AM Rowland Penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 18:44:57 +0100
> Meike Stone via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello dear group,
> >
> > we have migrated our Samba server from version 3.6 to Samba 4.6.
> >
> > Everyting is working fine, but I have seen one difference in the
> > output from "smbstatus -b".
> >
> > The hostname in the output is no longer displayed (see examples below)
> > 1) The hostname must come from Session setup or similar, because we
> > don't have any
> >  name resolution for clients.
> > 2) The hostname from the clients is usefull for us, because a lot of
> > clients are behind a NAT-Gateway and comes with one IP ( in example
> > the 192.168.12.30) ! In the old version I could see from witch host
> > each user came.
> >
> > In the new version, I only see the IP address two times.
> >
>
> This may be an artefact of turning off NTLMv1, try adding 'ntlm auth =
> yes' to your smb.conf and restarting Samba. If this cures your problem,
> then you have to decide if you can run with an insecure set up.
>
> I would also urge you to consider upgrading again, but this time to AD.
>
> Rowland
>
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