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

[Rowland Penny]

On 23/10/15 18:52, José Augusto Carvalho Filho wrote:
> Good afternoon even disabling the netbios "disable = yes netbios" he continues using the netbios.
>

OK, look *you cannot have a hostname that is longer than 15 characters*

This is *not* a Samba limitation, it a Microsoft Windows limitation, see 
here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/909264

Under the heading:

DNS host names

There is this:

Note Windows does not permit computer names that exceed 15 characters, 
and you cannot specify a DNS host name that differs from the NETBIOS 
host name.

Rowland