Machine accounts?

[Richard Sharpe]

At 04:54 PM 1/21/00 +1100, Steve Frampton wrote:

>- - Can a domain name not be the same as the machine name?  I had set up my
>system as "TokyoTest" and my NT domain/workgroup as "TokyoTest" and
>scratched my head for hours, wondering why nothing was working.  I then
>happened to try it with a different workgroup name, and it worked fine.

The machine name and the domain name are NetBIOS names.  There can only be
one instance of a NetBIOS name in the network, and the machine name will be
registered first, when Samba comes up, I think.  Certainly, that will be
the case with Windows ...

If you do 'nmblookup -S <domain>' you will find that <domain> is registered
as a group name of type <00>.  Thus you cannot have both a machine name and
a domain name with the same name!



Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
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