The following list describes how to specify clients by name rather than by IP address in SMB shares and NFS exports.
- Full Qualified Domain Name Required
To specify the fully qualified domain name of the client. For example, use aclient.dept.example.com instead of aclient.
- Leading Wildcard Allowed
To specify a partial name, a single wildcard located at the start of the name can be used.
You can use a single wildcard (*) at the beginning of a name to specify a partial name or pattern.
- Export Options Change Requires Remount
When the client mounts the shared resource, it determines which option to apply to a specific client. Subsequent changes to DNS, WINS, or NIS that resolve the client’s IP address to a different computer name are only applied when the client unmounts and remounts the share or export.
- Name
Service Order is Significant.
The application of share or export options to a client’s mount request may be affected by the order in which the system applies DNS, WINS, and NIS information to resolve IP addresses. The first service that can resolve the client name (in the name order sequence) supplies the name and searches configuration options for the share or export.