I am part of a large worldwide Active Directory and all of our individual site NT domain names have an ampersand symbol in them (for example: VWS@ROCHESTER) Samba 2.2.6pre2 and older won't join this domain name, or allow connections to it from users in this domain. The logs state that the domain name is "VWS_ROCHESTER", the code is squashing the @ to an _ causing all authentification attempts to fail. Since we are migrating to this domain, all of our samba servers will NOT function for users connecting from the AD domains due to the domain-name mangling.
I was told this was done as part of a security audit to the samba code, but it breaks compatibility in a major way. Ampersands are VALID in a netbios domain name, just not in a machine name (AFAIK), but samba doesn't comply in this regard. Since changing the netbios domain names of our win2k domains is not possible, I need a fix ASAP. Any suggestions? "This e-mail message is intended only for the use of the named recipient(s). The information contained therein may be confidential or privileged, and its disclosure or reproduction is strictly prohibited. If you are not the named recipient, please return it immediately to its sender at the above address and destroy it." -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
