netibios name len

[Richard Sharpe]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:17:05PM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > hi there,
> > 
> > I had some troubles while configuring a samba printer. The "host"
> > component of the netbios resource name was longer than 15 bytes and my
> > smbclient (version 2.2.5) truncates the netbois host name at that
> > length.
> 
> NetBIOS names are 16 bytes maximum, and Microsoft reserves the 16th byte 
> for special use.

Hmmm, this makes it sound like Microsoft has some sort of evil intentions 
:-)

When IBM (Barry Feigenbaum) designed the protocol back in '84, the 16th 
byte was reserved as a type byte then.



Regards
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