[Samba] Domain-name appended into username when "selecting users or groups"

George Mamalakis mamalos at eng.auth.gr
Fri Dec 3 00:59:49 MST 2010


On 02/12/2010 22:55, Chris Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Chris Smith<smb_77 at chrissmith.org>  wrote:
>> See:
>> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2010-June/156240.html
>> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2010-June/156244.html
>  From the link in my post from June (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264):
> ==========================
> Special characters
> Period (.).
>
> A period character separates the name into a NetBIOS scope identifier
> and the computer name. The NetBIOS scope identifier is an optional
> string of characters that identify logical NetBIOS networks that run
> on the same physical TCP/IP network. For NetBIOS to work between
> computers, the computers must have the same NetBIOS scope identifier
> and unique computer names.
> ==========================
>
> Chris
>
Thank you very much for your answer.

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