WinXP cannot join Samba 3.6 DC with an odd-length hostname

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Jul 27 12:17:25 MDT 2011


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:13:34PM +0200, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:39:14PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > I've filed another blocker for Samba 3.6 (sorry!).  I found during
> > testing that Samba 3.6 cannot be joined by a WinXP client if the
> > hostname of the server is odd length. 
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8326
> 
> thanks for the heads-up. Much appreciated!

FYI - we also need :

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8324

once Volker has reviewed - fixes smbclient breaking
on big-endian machines.

Jeremy.


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