> ---- > You fail to provide any meaningful information about what you are > logging into and a Windows AD would require kerberos which does take the > hostname (and clock) into account. > > You probably have to do a little homework to know. Red Hat's kickstart > works really well for this. Thank you for the hint, Craig. And A LeDone. And Eric. And others. I am authenticating against a Windows 2003 Server with Active Directory, you are correct. I did go back and look at the setings and kerberos is obviously involved too. If (big if) I get the chance to work on this more today, this is my plan: - Set the hostname to the original value so everything works right. - Change the authentication to local, ie. disable Windows domain authentication. - Reboot. (Or maybe just logout and back in.) - Change the hostname via YaST. - Delete the Samba secrets file. - Delete the ssh keys. - Reboot. (Or maybe just logout and back in.) That should trigger new host key generation when sshd restarts. - Change the authentication back to Windows domain. Hopefully that should trigger the creation of a new Samba secrets file and any other hostname dependent stuff. Maybe I am rebooting too much there. An amatuer admin like me does that sometimes. Then, I get to do this twice more with the other two machines. Before I do this sort of thing again, I'll read up on the AutoYaST. That sounds like what I should have done. I'll report back how things went when I try it. Probably not today, though. Alan --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss