Special characters in workgroup name?

Stephen L Arnold arnold.steve at ensco.com
Tue May 25 14:00:48 GMT 1999


When the world was young, Kimmo Vuorinen 
<Kimmo.Vuorinen at tietovalli.fi> carved some runes like this:  

> Is it possible to have special characters in workgroup name?
> Windows NT cant see names correctly when I used special characters.
> Any suggestions?

You'll have to try it and see.  I do know that I couldn't compile 
samba when I specified a workgroup name of IV&V (the ampersand was 
killing it).  It seems to run fine if I put the above name in 
smb.conf *after* I compile, but I couldn't use IV&V in the makefile.

Steve

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