Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's areal world NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-06 Thread Bryan J. Smith
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

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's areal world NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-06 Thread Andrew Bartlett
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.

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's areal world NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-06 Thread Bryan J. Smith
Quoting Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: machine names same as usernames - problems... -- here's areal world NetBIOS clusterfsck ...

2003-02-06 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:28, Richard Sharpe wrote: When a workstation boots, it registers its workstation name as a NetBIOS name. Indeed, it registers several types of NetBIOS names, including a 00 name, a 03 name and, if you have enabled sharing, a 20 name. When a user tries to log on,