Problem : Same name for WORKGROUP and DOMAIN (PR#8352)

[Jeremy Allison]

keskinv at alpha.sci.ege.edu.tr wrote:
> 
> Our server running samba 1.9.18p8 has name ASTRONOMY and the workgroup name
> 's also ASTRONOMY. All Win95 clients has also ASTRONOMY workgroup name.
> After the installation of samba 1.9.18p8 on our linux server, all clients
> show an error message which indicates that "workgroup name can not be the
> same name as server name" during the loading Win95. This was not the case
> for the previous version of samba. This error message was the same for some
> other previous version of samba but I don't remember the version number.

Setting the computer and workgroup name to be identical
is a baaaaaad idea. NT will not allow you to do this
(try it sometime). I will be adding code to Samba to
explicitly disallow identical machine and workgroup
names. The reason the previous version of Samba allowed
it (1.9.17 probably) was because that version of nmbd
was broken in several ways :-).

Cheers,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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