On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 07:54, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > Quoting Andrew Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Why can't it work? I've seen this discussed a number of times, but > > never really been told why it doesn't work. That $ is there for > > exactly that reason you know - to make them different. > > Er, not exactly. If I remember correctly, the "$" in the passwd file just a > Samba-specific nomenclature, correct? Plus CIFS has all sorts of "trailing > characters" after NetBIOS names that are _not_ part of the unique NetBIOS name > itself.
These are different. The $ termination is a NT suffix, that NT adds to it's machine accounts. The netbios issues are separate. (And as any user may add a netbios name to the network, Samba really isn't in a position to prevent this from occurring). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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