Connection issues to samba share from Server 2003 1

[ScottShinnie]

We have a Windows Server 2003 cluster which accesses data held on a samba share hosted on a Solaris 9.0 machine in a trusted domain. However we regularly lose connectivity to the samba share from one of the application servers. The share is up but the server is unable to access it.

If I RDP on to the server and try and browse the share I receive the following error.

\\serveralias\share is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

No network provider accepted the given network path.

If I use a FQDN (unix machine is in a different domain) or IP address to access the share it works correctly. If i reboot the server access to the share is restored.

This one has me beat - any advice would be appreciated - kerberos issue??

Thanks in advance

 

[ITPangaeaArchitect]

kerberos issue would be a good place to start.

i ran into this problem when krb5.conf was slightly misconfigured.

-Brandon Wilson
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