Definitely an OpenSUSE issue. That's a really terrible GUI design.
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:48 PM, William W. Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:14 PM 5/30/2008, John H Terpstra wrote: >> >> On Friday 30 May 2008 12:54:33 William W. Hammond wrote: >> > I was setting up Samba on an OpenSuSE 10.3 i386 computer. >> > >> > At the last minute I decided to enter a NetBIOS Hostname, big mistake. >> > A message popped up warning me that entering a NetBIOS Hostname would >> > create a new UID and Clients may no longer be able to connect. >> > The Message was correct.... >> > >> > However, (Design Flaw) at that point there was no way for me to back out >> > or >> > cancel, so the deed was done. >> >> The issue is not whether or not Samba has a NetBIOS name, but rather that >> a >> change of the NetBIOS name will generate a new SID for the system. If >> that >> system is a PDC, you will end up with a new Domain SID, and hence your >> Windows clients will no longer belong to the same domain your PDC is now >> in. >> >> > How or where do you remove or change that option...? >> >> You can find out the original domain SID from your Samba log files >> in /var/log/samba. Then reset the domain SID using: >> a) Stop Samba >> b) Execute: net setlocalsid "S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxx" >> c) Restart Samba >> >> That should restore things so long as you have not messed around with >> things >> too much, in which case it would be easier to rejoin your Windows clients >> to >> the current Samba domain setup. > > Thanks, that is what I needed, goes in my "Tech Save" box... > I still think I should have been able to opt out once I saw the warning, > Is that a Samba Issue or an OpenSuSE YaST issue...? > > >> PS: By default Samba finds the hostname of the system it is running on and >> uses that to generate the machine SID (and the domain SID if it is a PDC). >> >> - John T. >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > Performance Technology Systems Design > > "Never Promise more than you can deliver... > Always Deliver more than you promise.." > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba