[Freeipa-users] samba share access win xp

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 15:33 +0200, Oliver Kaspar wrote:
> Hi Simo,
> 
> thanks for your answer,
> 
> Am 05.06.2009 um 15:09 schrieb Simo Sorce:
> 
> > On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 13:57 +0200, Oliver Kaspar wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have problems accessing a samba share using windows xp, both, the
> >> samba server and the windows client being ipa clients.
> >>
> >> UNKNOWN_SERVER: authtime 1244197692 ...cifs/samba.EXAMPLE.LAN at EXAPMPLE.LAN
> >> , Server not found in Kerberos database
> >
> > How do you access the share from windows ?
> 
> I log on at the kerberos realm (this is working). Then I use the  
> windows explorer. The server is listed in "My Network Places" and I  
> klick on it, is this what you mean?

Yes, just for testing can you try to access the server using:
\\fully.qualified.domain.name\yourshare ?

Just to see if this makes any difference.

> >> Accessing the share with linux and mac os works. Is is a Problem,  
> >> that
> >> windows ist looking for cifs/samba.EXAMPLE.LAN and the principal is
> >> cifs/samba.example.lan? I can't add a server principal in capital
> >> letters, as it is indicated here: http://sial.org/howto/kerberos/windows/#s4
> >
> > Well in theory you could try to manually (ldapmodify) set up an alias
> > (krbPrincipalName is multivalued IIRC) and see if that works somehow,
> > but we never tested this, it might not work w/o modifications to the  
> > KDC
> > ldap driver.
> >
> 
> Do you think, the capital letters could be the problem?

They probably are.

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York