resolving NetBIOS names with a dot

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> > biereco:~$ smbclient -L "NET.BARF." -d2
> 
> uggh, what a name!
> 
> > While chasing the samba code for this peculiarity, I found the following:
> 
> yeah, Samba chops names at the first . and uses that for the netbios
> name. I realise now that this is a really bad idea but when I put that
> in I didn't really imagine anyone would use names with a . in them.
> 
> There are a few places in samba where this assumption is made. Someone
> needs to go through and clean it up then test with a large bunch of
> test cases.

i added code in BRANCH_NTDOM smbclient with a #ifdef to truncate or not
truncate at the ".".

the reason this is done in the first place is because that is what
microsoft chose to do.

luke