From 86dfab1517d3417e3063812b1fe5ad10760a0bab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Schneider Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:22:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Documents length limitations for NetBIOS name BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11401 Signed-off-by: Andreas Schneider Reviewed-by: Michael Adam Autobuild-User(master): Andreas Schneider Autobuild-Date(master): Wed Jul 15 19:35:48 CEST 2015 on sn-devel-104 (cherry picked from commit e736a169d5dc76d0ef10d20f211ea6e7e6df4f59) --- docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml index 60bc082..542d058 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ the hosts DNS name) will be the name that these services are advertised under. + Note that the maximum length for a NetBIOS name is 15 charactars. + There is a bug in Samba that breaks operation of browsing and access to shares if the netbios name is set to the literal name PIPE. To avoid this problem, do not name your Samba -- 2.4.5