On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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?
grrr... I hate that alpha_strcpy() code. I'll get you a fix today. Can you send me a level 10 debug log of the failure? cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca-- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
