[Samba] Samba domain name in short format

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 6 May 2024 19:50:18 +0000
"Sun, Zhongdong via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> We have a Samba server that experiences very strange problems. I
> wonder if anyone can provide some advice.
> 
> This is a Redhat 8.4 machine with Samba 4.13.3. We setup Samba
> according to Redat document
> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3802321 .

Sorry but that is behind a redhat wall and I cannot access it, but as
it seems to how to use Samba with sssd, I suppose it uses their 'sss'
idmap backend.

> It works well in most
> cases but has some issues. When user tries to mount a share from
> his/her PC, he/she must use the long format of domain name, such as
> yu.yale.edu\zs24. It works but most users don't like it. Instead, all
> users prefer to use the short format like YALE\zs24, but this doesn't
> work anymore. Here, YALE is a short format of yu.yale.edu. This short
> format works well in Redhat 7.4 with Samba 4.6.2. But we have to
> upgrade Redhat 7.x to 8.x.
> 
> I wonder if anyone experienced similar issues or has any direction on
> what's going on here. Any advice will be appreciated.

Samba doesn't produce sssd, so doesn't have access to the code if it
needs fixing. I suggest you contact redhat to get this fixed if you
want to continue to use sssd with Samba.

If, however, you want to use Samba as Samba intended, that is by using
winbind without sssd, I am more than willing to help with this.

I suppose that I should also point out that, from the Samba of point of
view, Samba 4.13.3 is ancient.

Rowland