[Samba] Join 2012 Server R2 as member to NT domain

[James Fromm]

Odd, we've used a FQDN for our netbios domain for 15 years.  I'll give 
it shot.

On 04/15/2015 12:40 PM, Robert Moulton wrote:
> Sonic wrote on 4/15/15 12:34 PM:
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:23 PM, James Fromm <fromm at omnis.com> wrote:
>>> workgroup = CUST.OMNIS.COM
>>
>> My understanding is that workgroup names are NetBIOS names and are
>> therefore not hierarchical like domain names (no dots, 15 characters,
>> etc.).
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> We encountered this too, when trying to join Win 8 and Win 2012 systems
> to a S3 domain with a dot in its name. As far as I know it's not possible.