When accessing Samba share from Windows machine - password prompt appears
Issue
- This occurs for some of the Windows clients.
- On the Windows 7 machine when using the FQDN of the Samba server we are prompted for a password but not when using the IP address.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- samba-3.0.33
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