Netbios name %m not always correct

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 16:54, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, M A Young wrote:
> 
> > We have just moved a server over to Samba 3.0.0, and it seems that %m,
> > which should return the netbios name often returns the ip number of the
> > host instead. This is a problem, (apart from making the logging more
> > confusing), since we use smbclient to provide responses to certain
> > actions, and if %m isn't returning the correct netbios name I don't think
> > the message gets through.
> > 
> > Has anyone else seen this problem or know how to fix it?
> 
> Yes, this will be the case when the client uses a NetBIOS-less SMB 
> sessions (on port 445) which most clients do these days :-(
> 
> You will need to use some other macro. Perhaps %U or something like that.

Well, we do pick up the %m name from NTLMSSP, even on 445 - but kerberos
and some anonymous logins kills that.  That's why it's not an 'always'
thing.

Andrew Bartlett

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