Broken SMB? Xserve 10.4.6

[Anonymous]

Well, through no help from Apple, I did mangage to get my AD talking to my Xserve and I was able to successfully connect all clients to my shares. But I tried to install the remote agent for Veritas the other day, and now my SMB appears to be broken. Can’t say if it’s related or coincidence as the SMB broke right after the reboot. (first reboot in a month).

Here are the facts:

FROM TIGER MAC CLIENT

SMB Auth does not work using AD Logon – receive “Could not connect to the server because the name or password is not correct”
SMB Auth works using XServer Local Machine User Names (ex. Localadmin, Localuser)
AFP Auth works when connecting to IP address of server, using both AD and Mac Local XServe Name/Password
AFP cannot mount volume when connecting by Host name. Does not even ask for authentication

FROM Windows XP Clients

SMB does not work using AD name/password
SMB does work using Xserve name/password (localadmin, localuser, etc.)
FTP Authentication works using AD name/password

So it appears that SMB is broken. Any ideas? I’ve found that others are experiencing this random problem, but as of yet, Apple has not issued a fix.

Thanks and kind regards,

Jack

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