[RFC/PATCH] cifs.upcall: use kernel.provided principal name if available

[Martin Wilck]

On 09/13/2011 01:23 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> If they know the computer name, why don't they connect to it as
> $COMPUTERNAME?  That's how this is meant to work - the DNS or netbios
> name the user resolves for the connection to is either the cn,
> dnsHostname or in the servicePrincipalNames of the record.  

As I said earlier, that's what the Win clients do, and when it fails,
they fall back to NTLM which won't bother with SPNs. The user never gets
to know the difference.

> If your users are connecting to names not in that list, why not just add
> them to the servicePrincipalNames list?  We really should not be adding
> more and more hacks around this area, they will only bite us later.

I have requested that from our sysadmin.

When I first discovered that Win clients could connect to the service in
question while the Linux cifs client couldn't, I suspected a problem
with the cifs client (especially because smbclient was able to connect
with kerberos, too). I do understand now that this conclusion was wrong.

Regards
Martin

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