Uppercase machine names ??

Peter Lundqvist peterl at update.uu.se
Mon Apr 16 17:46:37 GMT 2001


> Hi, 
> 
> I'm trying to find some time to update the FAQ and HowTo on Samba22 as a
> PDC. Now, someone has sent me a message suggesting that they can get
> everything working perfectly if thay use only uppercase machine names, ie
> in /etc/passwd and ~/smbpasswd and at the W2K joining stages. I know that
> Windows likes to uppercase such things but samba (usually) takes care of it.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this funny business ??

Well, yes, but that was CVS-code before samba_2_2 was forked off.
I'm currently running a setup with lowercase machine names.





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