Long machine names...

[Tim Winders]

This isn't a BIG problem (yet), I just wanted to make you aware that this
might be an issue for the future.  This machine doesn't have any users
connected to it, so changing the name was easy, but when you get the full
PDC stuff for NT going, and I create shares with user permissions for the
unix box and I have lots of people connecting to the box for those shares,
changing the name could be a problem.  ;-)

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> ok, try using the "map username = " option.  map "support2$" to "sup2$".
> OH.  first i think we have to add this functionality into the password
> system, not just on the unix smbd side :-)
> 
> wait for a bit, ok, while a "validate_unix_username()" function gets
> created...
> 
> lukes
> 
> On Thu, 21 May 1998, Tim Winders wrote:
> 
> > I just ran into a "problem" with the machine accounts requiring an entry
> > in the /etc/passwd file for account creating.  On *MY* system, unix
> > account names can only be 8 characters.  I have (had) an NT machine with
> > the name SUPPORT2 (8 character) but to create the unix account, I needed 9
> > characters (SUPPORT2$) which wouldn't work.  I created the account as
> > SUPPORT2 and changed the entry to SUPPORT2$ and then ran smbpasswd -a -m
> > support2 support2 but the NT machine said it could login because the
> > account in the domain didn't exist or the password didn't match.  I ended
> > up changing the machine name to SUP2 and adding the appropriate entries
> > and this worked...
> > 
> > Hey!  Wait a minute... now that I look again at my /etc/passwd file, there
> > are NO machine entries there... does smbpasswd REMOVE the entries from
> > /etc/passwd when the machine account is created?
> > 
> > === Tim
> > 
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=== Tim

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