Ah well. Dear LP lost my comments on the change above. Setting Triaged for the Samba (Ubuntu) task: this is clearly something to be adjusted there; reassigning to the Canonical Server Team.
We could, pretty much, do the same as OSX: truncate the hostname to 15 characters, document it, and go from there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/735072 Title: The hostname proposed by installer is too long for file sharing to work correctly. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs