[Samba] Problem since upgrade to 4.5.1

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:31:28 +1100
John Gardeniers via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi Rowland,
> 
> I Upgraded from Samba 4.4.2 and we have tried the FQDN without
> success.
> 
> regards,
> John
> 
> 
> On 21/11/16 08:02, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:42:30 +1100
> > John Gardeniers via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Louis,
> >>
> >> While it wasn't spelled out, it was firmly implied in my previous
> >> message that this problem appeared only after the Samba upgrade.
> >> Nothing else has changed that might impact RDP. There has been no
> >> change to machine names, IP addresses (we use DHCP reservations) or
> >> DNS entries. If a dash in the computer's name or DNS entry is
> >> behind this issue then it's clearly a rather serious bug in Samba.
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> > It might help if you told us what version you upgraded from.
> >
> > I think there have been problems with windows machine now requiring
> > the FQDN instead of the short hostname, so this 'may' be your
> > problem, note I say 'may'.
> >
> > Rowland
> >
> 
> 

About the only change real change was 'ntlm auth', try setting this to
'ntlm auth = yes' in smb.conf. I don't think it should affect your
problem, but as I said, it is the only real change.

Rowland