On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:17:05PM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote: > > hi there, > > > > I had some troubles while configuring a samba printer. The "host" > > component of the netbios resource name was longer than 15 bytes and my > > smbclient (version 2.2.5) truncates the netbois host name at that > > length. > > NetBIOS names are 16 bytes maximum, and Microsoft reserves the 16th byte > for special use.
Hmmm, this makes it sound like Microsoft has some sort of evil intentions :-) When IBM (Barry Feigenbaum) designed the protocol back in '84, the 16th byte was reserved as a type byte then. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
