[Samba] Netbios Issue
Mike Hobbs
mhobbs at mtl.mit.edu
Sat Sep 14 14:41:40 UTC 2024
Hello,
I have been running Samba for many many years and have have not had this
issue, so I hope someone can point me in the right direction.
I am currently running in production Samba 4.7.7 on RHEL 7.9. It has
been running without issue until yesterday. I am building a new server
to replace the one currently running Samba, this time with RHEL 8.10 and
Samba 4.21.0.
On the RH8 machine I downloaded and built from source 4.21.0. I copied
the smb.conf file from my current production server over to the new
server. I did not change the netbios name as I just assumed (how
foolish of me) that I would see two Samba servers with the same name. I
then ran these two commands:
kinit admin_user at my.domain (I entered my password and got a ticket)
net ads join -U admin_user
When I did this, my production server stopped accepting requests to
mount shares by the netbios name. A little more info, in DNS my name
will be "foo-bar.my.domain" also in DNS is an alias "foobar.my.domain"
that points back to "foo-bar". I immediately shutdown the new server
with 4.21.0. I then went to my Windows DC and removed the foo-bar name,
and then re-added the 4.7.7 server back to the domain controller. It
added without issue. But I still can not mount shares via \\foo-bar\share.
I can mount shares using the alias \\foobar\share or the IP address of
the machine or even \\foo-bar.my.domain\share. The \\foo-bar\ name
seems to be cached somewhere and I just can not figure out where it is
so I can remove it.
Am I making sense? Sorry for the wall of text.
Thank you for any help you can provide.
mike
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