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During your planning and migration, DNS character set limitations =
require
special attention. NetBIOS names used in previous versions of Windows =
may
contain additional characters that are illegal in DNS (namely,
~!@#$%^&'.(){}, and not supported by any DNS server implementation) or
characters (e.g. Unicode characters) that are supported by only a few =
DNS
server implementations (e.g. Windows 2000 DNS servers). When a Windows =
NT
4.0 computer is upgraded to Windows 2000, its NetBIOS name is preserved =
and
is used as the Computer Name (i.e. the first label in the computer full =
DNS
name). If before an upgrade a computer NetBIOS name contained Unicode
characters, then its A (host) record can be added to a DNS database if =
a DNS
server supports Unicode characters (e.g. Windows 2000 DNS servers). If =
in
your organization a large number of the computers have NetBIOS names
containing Unicode characters, then you may want to make a DNS server
supporting Unicode characters be authoritative for the A records of the
computers, since it may not be very practical to rename a large number =
of
computers. If before an upgrade a computer NetBIOS name contained =
illegal
characters (from DNS perspective), then computer's A (host) record =
cannot be
added to a DNS database. In this case you will have to rename the =
computers
to register the A records corresponding to these computers.=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Harry R=FCter [mailto:harry_rueter at gmx.de]
Sent: 20 September 2002 15:23
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] "@" doesn't work in the NT domain name


Hi,

[ ...]
> > 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
> > complyin this regard. =20

AFAIK an ampersand is the char "&" , is it just the wrong word for the
char or is the "@" not allowed in netbios domain names ?

Greets Harry

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