[Samba] "@" doesn't work in the NT domain name

[Gerald Carter]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 dave.andruczyk at valeo.com wrote:

> 
> I am part of a large worldwide Active Directory and all of our individual
> site NT domain names have an  ampersand symbol in them
> (for example: VWS at ROCHESTER)  Samba 2.2.6pre2 and older won't join this
> domain name, or allow connections to it from users in this domain.  The
> logs state that the domain name is "VWS_ROCHESTER",  the code is squashing
> the @ to an _ causing all authentification attempts to fail.  Since we are
> migrating to this domain, all of our samba servers will NOT function for
> users connecting from the AD domains due to the domain-name mangling.
> 
> I was told this was done as part of a security audit to the samba code, but
> it breaks compatibility in a major way. Ampersands are VALID in a netbios
> domain name, just not in a machine name (AFAIK), but samba doesn't comply
> in this regard.  Since changing the netbios domain names of our win2k
> domains is not possible, I need a fix ASAP.  Any suggestions?

grrr... I hate that alpha_strcpy() code.  I'll get you a fix today.
Can you send me a level 10 debug log of the failure?





cheers, jerry
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