[UniMacTech] Leopard SMB mounting issue

[David Wikeley]

Have you tried connecting using the IP Address of  the server, we have found that sometimes the WINS resolution does not work very well.




On 19/09/08 1:32 PM, "Takeo Echizenya" <takeo.echizenya at aut.ac.nz> wrote:



 Hi,



 I am wondering if anyone is experiencing a SMB mounting issue when connecting to shares hosted on a Win2K3 AD Kerberized server?  The issue appears to affect Leopard only.  Shares mount fine on 10.4.11 client.



 The issue appears to be in all builds of 10.5 including 10.5.5.  Basically the client machine has no issues binding or authenticating against the AD server, but when attempting to mount an SMB/CIFS share it prompts for reauthentication.  This shouldn't be the case if Kerberos is running correctly.



 According to Kerberos.app, the client/login has received the correct ticket.  The issue is only affected when doing it via the GUI i.e. Connect to Server.  If the mount_smbfs command is used to mount the share, the share mounts successfully without prompting for reauthentication.



 I have also found the same "authentication prompt" issue when printing to AD print queues.  Otherwise printing to AD print queues is fine after entering login details.



 Mounting SMB shares is not so much of an issue for us at the moment, as I can write a script to automount the shares upon user login and has proven to work fine so far.  It will only be an issue if a user decides to mount shares manually that are not already mounted.



 Any thoughts on this?  Searching in the forums, some users are experiencing the same problem.  Apparently it is a known issue that is still yet to be fixed.



 Regards,


 Takeo

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