RE: Writing to shares on DNS Aliases

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From: ptwilliams (ptw2001_at_hotmail.com.donotspam)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 03:19:04 -0800

Here's the instructions on the registry changes you need to make to accept
multiple names:
 -- http://www.msresource.net/content/view/16/47/

However there are, apparently, some security concerns with this. I believe
Kerberos doesn't work - your machine will resort to downlevel communication.
But don't have any info. on this point at hand.

However I've used this method many times and have seen no ill effects.

Hope this helps, 

--
Paul Williams
http://www.msresource.net/
http://forums.msresource.net/
"Adrian Marsh (NNTP)" wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Following on from a post I made in .advanced_server,  I'm having 
> problems writing to an aliased DNS name.
> 
> swocmpq01.my.some.domain   has a DNS alias of logs.my.some.domain
> 
> On client PCs, theres an AT script that runs, and tries to write to 
> \\logs.my.some.domain\logs$\log.txt.  It runs as user System
> 
> If I use \\logs...  then it fails. I get Access Denied.  If I write to 
> \\swocmpq01....  then it works...
> 
> I've applied the registry tweak to allow swocmpq01 to use SMB aliases 
> (per http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281308)... 
> But as this is more to do with DNS than WINS, then I'm assuming theres 
> something else thats causing it.
> 
> Any ideas???
> 
> Adrian
>

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