[Samba] SOLVED - Principal is a computer account - why

Meike Stone meike.stone at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 6 13:15:10 UTC 2021


Am Mi., 1. Sept. 2021 um 11:15 Uhr schrieb Meike Stone
<meike.stone at googlemail.com>:
>
> Hello dear list,
>
> I have running a samba instance, users can access the share.
> On the Client (name: computer01), the share is connected via
> net use x: \\samba01\share01
>
> But often I see in the log
> "Kerberos ticket principal name is [computer01$@ADDOMAIN.NET]"
> But this is a computer account and not known on the server.
>
> Does anybody have any clue why there are such requests are coming from
> the client?

On the client was a virus scanning engine (kaspersky), who is running
under the system account. That led
to the described "phenomenon". The colleagues who cares for the virus
scanner are now responsible to solve that ...

Thanks all for answering.
Meike



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