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

Karolin Seeger kseeger at samba.org
Wed Jul 27 12:26:15 MDT 2011


Hi Jeremy,

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:17:25AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Karolin

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