[Samba] Join a host PC without having to reduce the characters (NetBIOS).

[Rowland Penny]

On 23/10/15 14:45, José Augusto Carvalho Filho wrote:
> Hello everybody.I'm in trouble the following problem:
> Our netbios name can be at most 15 chars long, "AD-CLIENT-CENTOS" is 17 chars longInvalid configuration. Exiting ....Failed to join domain: The format of the specified computer name is invalid.
> How could join Join a host PC without having to reduce the characters (NetBIOS).? 		 	   		

This is a limitation from windows, you cannot have a netbios name that 
is longer than 15 characters, so if you must have the fact that it is in 
AD and is a client running centos as the short hostname, then try 
'adclientcentos' instead

Rowland