From b782bedbf6a488b403223753fda4c6a065dcc499 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 3e00bf1..cea066e8 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ 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-3 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-3 -- 2.4.5