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...hem. I did not find any relevant info in the wiki or online for this usecase with samba4. I may be wrong, but....I did spend hours debugging this. I only stumbled upon the same problem when using Ms ADDC servers, which pointed out 2 necessary configs in order for aliases to work: 1. Add the DisableStrictNameChecking value in the server-side registry in the LanMan parameters. 2. Set the 2 required SPNs for every alias needed (windows tool syntax). setspn -a host/aliasname targetserver_netbios_name setspn -a host/aliasname.domain.ext targetserver_netbios_name My env details: Hostname: dc0 Domain: timco.in...

...omain, I add netbios aliases = fs fs.example.com to smb.conf on each server, and after that I get access but as I understand it, this is not recommended. On windows fileserver this is solved by the parameter HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ LanmanServer \ Parameters \ DisableStrictNameChecking [REG_DWORD # 32] = [0 (disabled) (default) | 1 (enabled)]

...> fs.example.com to smb.conf on each server, and after that I get access > but as I understand it, this is not recommended. > > On windows fileserver this is solved by the parameter > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ > LanmanServer \ Parameters \ > DisableStrictNameChecking [REG_DWORD # 32] = [0 (disabled) (default) > | 1 (enabled)] > > > OK, for a start netbios != DNS Also whilst (from my understanding) you can have multiple fqdn's pointing to one ipaddress, I do not think you can have one fqdn pointing to multiple ipaddresses, well not on a Samb...

Hi Can I set the same netbios name on multiple servers? more precisely why it does not work? server A [global]   netbios name = FS1   netbios aliases = fs fs.example.ru server B [global]   netbios name = FS2   netbios aliases = fs fs.example.ru