In the absence of the full KDC-side canonicalisation code, I've hacked Heimdal to use the default realm if no other realm can be determined for a given host. I also had to make sure to use the upper-cased realm from our smb.conf, when overriding the defaults in Heimdal. The patch is attached. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc. http://suse.de Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
Index: heimdal/lib/krb5/get_host_realm.c
===================================================================
--- heimdal/lib/krb5/get_host_realm.c	(revision 10369)
+++ heimdal/lib/krb5/get_host_realm.c	(working copy)
@@ -187,27 +187,40 @@
 		return 0;
 	}
     }
+
+    *realms = malloc(2 * sizeof(krb5_realm));
+    if (*realms == NULL) {
+	    krb5_set_error_string(context, "malloc: out of memory");
+	    return ENOMEM;
+    }
+    
+    (*realms)[1] = NULL;
+
     p = strchr(host, '.');
     if(p != NULL) {
 	p++;
-	*realms = malloc(2 * sizeof(krb5_realm));
-	if (*realms == NULL) {
+	(*realms)[0] = strdup(p);
+	if((*realms)[0] == NULL) {
+	    free(*realms);
 	    krb5_set_error_string(context, "malloc: out of memory");
 	    return ENOMEM;
 	}
-
-	(*realms)[0] = strdup(p);
-	if((*realms)[0] == NULL) {
+	strupr((*realms)[0]);
+    } else {
+	krb5_error_code ret;
+	ret = krb5_get_default_realm(context, &(*realms)[0]);
+	if(ret) {
 	    free(*realms);
 	    krb5_set_error_string(context, "malloc: out of memory");
 	    return ENOMEM;
 	}
-	strupr((*realms)[0]);
-	(*realms)[1] = NULL;
-	return 0;
+	if((*realms)[0] == NULL) {
+	    free(*realms);
+	    krb5_set_error_string(context, "unable to find realm of host %s", host);
+	    return KRB5_ERR_HOST_REALM_UNKNOWN;
+	}
     }
-    krb5_set_error_string(context, "unable to find realm of host %s", host);
-    return KRB5_ERR_HOST_REALM_UNKNOWN;
+    return 0;
 }
 
 /*
Index: auth/kerberos/krb5_init_context.c
===================================================================
--- auth/kerberos/krb5_init_context.c	(revision 10369)
+++ auth/kerberos/krb5_init_context.c	(working copy)
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
 			talloc_free(tmp_ctx);
 			return ENOMEM;
 		}
-		ret = krb5_set_default_realm((*smb_krb5_context)->krb5_context, lp_realm());
+		ret = krb5_set_default_realm((*smb_krb5_context)->krb5_context, upper_realm);
 		if (ret) {
 			DEBUG(1,("krb5_set_default_realm failed (%s)\n", 
 				 smb_get_krb5_error_message((*smb_krb5_context)->krb5_context, ret, tmp_ctx)));
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