[Samba] winbind and exclamation mark

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 21:33, Marco Berizzi wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm having a problem with winbind/samba-2.2.8a on Slackware
> linux 9.1 (glibc 2.3.2, kernel 2.4.24, gcc 3.2.3) with a user
> account on a Windoze NT 4.0 PDC named !schedule
> I always get "Access denied" from the windoze NT 4.0 box and
> syslog on samba box reports:
> 
> domain_client_validate: unable to validate password
> for user _schedule in domain DOMAIN to Domain controller srvnt1.
> Error was NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER.
> 
> I think the problem is the "!".

Samba 2.2 bans that character for security reasons.  

Samba 3.0 (I hope) takes better care, and allows 'weird' characters in
usernames.  (But not in the %U macro).

Andrew Bartlett

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