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...ned to the Active Directory forest using its fully qualified domain name. Windows clients can successfully map drives using that fully qualified name, However, services have a tendency to be moved or need failover during maintenance so I would prefer to tell customers to use a service alias like smbserver3.rest.ofthe.domain.com. When clients use that alias, I can see attempts at kerberos authentication in the logs on the SAMBA server using the canonical FQDN so Windows is getting the right address, talking to the right smbd, but authentication fails. Jul 10 09:43:25 shortname smbd[27284]: krb5_rd...