samba - Mar 2005 - Why Ip addres in lieu of name machine

Hello,

Why must a user connect to the samba server using ip addres of the server. 
Any days beofre he uses the server name.

Regards

Jean Frontin
System team
I R I T
Universit? Paul-Sabatier
118, rte de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse cedex 04
France
tel  (33)(0)5 61 55 63 03
mail frontin@irit.fr

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Jean Frontin wrote:
| Hello,
|
| Why must a user connect to the samba server using
| ip addres of the  server. Any days beofre he uses
| the server name.

Sounds like you have kerberos problems (assuming security
= ads).  Using the IP address in the connection, the
windows client falls back to NTLMSSP rather than
requesting a service ticket from the WIndows TGS.

This has been talked about a lot.  I'd recommend
http://samba.org/samba/docs/ or search the mailing
list for background.




cheers, jerry
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