[Samba] (SOLVED ) you have been logged on with a temporary profile_win7, client+samba 4+WinServ2012

Yanni y.goudetsidis at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk
Wed Jun 17 07:20:32 MDT 2015


Hi

Yes you are right it is a workaround but the reason is not resolvable at 
the moment is because Samba server is not registered in our DNS yet. I 
believe once a DNS entry is created, I will be able to use the name 
instead of the IP in the user's profile path.

On 17/06/15 13:18, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
> yes, agree Rowland, and he added 1 extra problem.
>
> Kerberos auth, does not work right if you dont use the hostname (best in fqdn )
> for the server it may work, but other things maybe not.
>
> for example, if you install also a squid proxy and you want to use kerberos auth.
> you must use the FQDN of the host in your browser to get it working.
> and thats just 1 example.
>
> It better you fix your dns and setup correctly.
> and.. if you dont know how, just ask the list, you learn from it. ;-)
>
> Greetz,
>
> Louis
>
>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
>> [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Rowland Penny
>> Verzonden: woensdag 17 juni 2015 14:05
>> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] (SOLVED ) you have been logged on with
>> a temporary profile_win7, client+samba 4+WinServ2012
>>
>> On 17/06/15 10:16, Yanni wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I got help from someone in the #Samba channel. It turned out that
>>> my Samba Server (JIMMY) was not resolving. DNS was not aware of him.
>>> So the suggestion was to use the "netbios name = JIMMY" in
>> my smb.conf
>>> and
>>> in the user's "profile tab" enter the path using jimmy's IP.
>>> \\IP\disk1\profs
>>> That did the trick. Thank you everyone for your time and help.
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>> Yanni
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry, but in my opinion, you have not solved the problem, you have
>> worked around it. You seem to have dns problems, 'JIMMY' should be
>> resolvable by hostname.
>>
>> Rowland
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