[Samba] Authentication failing
Andrew Morgan
morgan at orst.edu
Mon Mar 27 17:54:46 GMT 2006
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Matt Smith wrote:
> ACK! Ok this morning for some strange reason when trying to resolve my
> samba server authentication fails ... it can ping the host name and it
> tries to connect but authentication fails, if I connect to the IP all
> works fine, this only started happening this AM any ideas?
>
>
> My enviro is a win2k3 AD domain and a samba file server ...
>
> everything seems to run fine except for when users try to map to
> machinename\share it fails, but works with ip_address\share
Sounds like a WINS name resolution problem. We had an issue like this
recently and found out that the WINS server listed in smb.conf was not
running (service did not start after a power outage). Now, we list both
our WINS servers in case one fails. :)
You may need to restart Samba (or at least nmbd) if you change WINS
settings, in order for Samba to register its name with the new server(s).
Andy
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