Problems with Win2K and IP Address or Long Name

[Matt Dobbertien]

We are running Samba 2.05 on Solaris and have run into the following issue.
We can connect to the shares on the box from any box when using the short
name (ie \\Bob), but not the long name (\\bob.domain.com) or the ip address
(\\172.17.19.104).  When using Windows 2000, the default method of access is
to use DNS to resolve the name, so even using a short name somehow results
in the long name being sent.  We have verified that the issue is with the
long name by removing our domain name from the client and connections work
fine.  Is there a reason why the server would reject the long name and the
IP address, but allow the short (netbios) name.  This doesn't really make
sense, as we can access other features on the box (telnet, ssh, etc) using
the fully qualified DNS name.

Additional information:  Everything worked last week, even from Windows 2000
boxes.  Something probably changed, but we did not make a deliberate change
to the Samba configuration, except in troubleshooting this problem.

Matt Dobbertien
NT Administrator
nistevo
mdobbertien at nistevo.com