I have many windows server 2003 servers. On all of our file shares/SQL servers we use CNAMES for easy DR changes and testing. Primarily we only use DNS aliases from clients to the servers We installed a new app that has a database of UNC locations. The app uses these locations to do some file copies. The problem seems to be that the server itself cannot access the \\myalias\myshare from itself. Extremely strange. When i try to go to run and type this UNC path using the alias on the server itself i get prompted with a username/password dialog. Any credentials i enter here fail. we apply the disablestrictnamecheck registry fix to all our servers. any ideas? SPN related, trying to find a free server to test this on. thanks for any help.

Hello, Thank you for your post here. Have you set the set the SPN for the Alias Name that is mentioned in the KB 281308? Connecting to SMB share on a Windows 2000-based computer or a Windows Server 2003-based computer may not work with an alias name http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281308 If the issue persists, could you please provide the exact error message received when you attempt to access the share with CNAME? If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to let me know.

thanks for the reply!i beleive my issue has to do with this.http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926642i am waiting for a restart to test.

HI Georgedavid,Just want to touch base on the issue ,did you had a chance to go through the link ,