[Samba] Join a host PC without having to reduce the characters (NetBIOS).

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 17:23:45 UTC 2015


On 23/10/15 18:13, José Augusto Carvalho Filho wrote:
> Thanks for listening. I appreciate your understanding. I need to know if the samba supports customers with but 15 characters. In exeplo using was illustrative. I have clients with but of 15 characters. Ex: Apocalypse-master
> From: jose.cfilho at hotmail.com.br
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Join a host PC without having to reduce the characters (NetBIOS).
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:45:05 +0300
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> Hello everybody.I'm in trouble the following problem:
> Our netbios name can be at most 15 chars long, "AD-CLIENT-CENTOS" is 17 chars longInvalid configuration. Exiting ....Failed to join domain: The format of the specified computer name is invalid.
> How could join Join a host PC without having to reduce the characters (NetBIOS).? 		 	   		   		 	   		

You *cannot* have a netbios name with more than 15 characters.

This limitation comes from windows.

Rowland




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