[Samba] Problem since upgrade to 4.5.1

Alex Crow
2016-11-18T09:20:52Z

On 17/11/16 21:48, John Gardeniers via samba wrote:
> Since upgrading our DCs to Sernet Samba v4.5.1 we are experiencing
> problems using Remote Desktop from Windows boxes. The rather useless
> and completely misleading error message states:
>
> "The connection cannot be completed because the remote computer that
> was reached is not the one you specified. This could be caused by an
> outdated entry in the DNS cache. Try using the IP address of the
> computer instead."
>
> We are able to RDP using the IP address from a Windows machine. We are
> also able to RDP by either name or address from a Linux machine. It's
> only when we try to connect by name from a Windows machine that we
> have this problem. It all worked perfectly fine prior to the Samba
> upgrade.
>
> It most certainly is not a DNS issue but just to be ultra sure the
> caches on both the client and destination boxes were flushed, We also
> rebooted both machines.
>
> The clocks were also checked against those on the DCs, with a maximum
> discrepancy of one second. The time on the two DCs matched to within
> 0.002 seconds.
>
> Anyone have any theories about this? Or a solution?
>
> regards,
> John
>
>

Hi John,

I've just tested on our newest test domain and I could not reproduce
this connecting to our single Server 2008 R2 Terminal Server from Windows 7.

I presume you can resolve the names OK from your Windows client machine?

Cheers,

Alex

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