The branch, master has been updated via e736a16 docs: Documents length limitations for NetBIOS name from a0d2dd0 auth/credentials: if credentials have principal set, they are not anonymous anymore
https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=shortlog;h=master - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit e736a169d5dc76d0ef10d20f211ea6e7e6df4f59 Author: Andreas Schneider <a...@samba.org> Date: Wed Jul 15 13:22:40 2015 +0200 docs: Documents length limitations for NetBIOS name BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11401 Signed-off-by: Andreas Schneider <a...@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Adam <ob...@samba.org> Autobuild-User(master): Andreas Schneider <a...@cryptomilk.org> Autobuild-Date(master): Wed Jul 15 19:35:48 CEST 2015 on sn-devel-104 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Changeset truncated at 500 lines: diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml index 3369e3e..ed7dd5e 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ the hosts DNS name) will be the name that these services are advertised under. </para> + <para>Note that the maximum length for a NetBIOS name is 15 charactars.</para> + <para> There is a bug in Samba that breaks operation of browsing and access to shares if the netbios name is set to the literal name <literal>PIPE</literal>. To avoid this problem, do not name your Samba -- Samba Shared Repository