samba - Mar 2002 - Naming convention in Samba

Hello again,

Only wondering about one little (?) thing...

As some may remember I had a major problems about setting up winbind with my
AD domain. Secret was bad and wbinfo -u also gave errors. What I did was
that I changed my domain name from dotted name (TEST.ORG) to old-fashion one
word domain (TEST). Then I changed domain name from smb.conf and suprise
suprise everything was working ok. (As for info I?m using newest samba
version and "+" as a separator)

Why on earth it doesn?t take dotted name???

Another annoying thing is that in my other testcase where domainname is
TEST2.ORG(which is pure samba thing no winbind involved) if You browse
network neighbourhood in windows all other machines are under name TEST2 but
samba server is found from TEST2.ORG. Any chance to get them to be found in
same place?

Even though this email may sound like big whining I REALLY impressed about
what an superb piece of program samba and winbind really are. Maximum
respect to all whom may take credit for it:-)

Cheers,

Juri Ahokas

I think I know the answer to this one.

Windows2000 uses DNS for most things (hence the new dotted domain names for AD)
but it still maintains backward compatability for older clients (nt4 and win9x)
that's why you enter two types of domain names when you make an active
directory server.  Ones for win2k and above, ones for the older netbios clients.
Samba in my experience does not yet know/care about any of the AD DNS stuff that
win2k makes.  All samba cares about is WINS("old style" according the
microsoft).  So when you name a domain in samba test.org, that's the same as
naming the "old style" domain in AD test.org.  So in order for
everybody to play fair and know who to talk to, just use the "old
style" for everything.  This effects nothing in the win2k and above servers
as they see them with the newer DNS domain name.  And NEVER use a period in an
"old style" netbios domain name, it'll cause you headaches later
on.

-----Original Message-----
From: Juri Ahokas [mailto:juri.ahokas@ktl.fi] 
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 1:43 AM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Naming convention in Samba



Hello again,

Only wondering about one little (?) thing...

As some may remember I had a major problems about setting up winbind with my AD
domain. Secret was bad and wbinfo -u also gave errors. What I did was that I
changed my domain name from dotted name (TEST.ORG) to old-fashion one word
domain (TEST). Then I changed domain name from smb.conf and suprise suprise
everything was working ok. (As for info I?m using newest samba version and
"+" as a separator)

Why on earth it doesn?t take dotted name???

Another annoying thing is that in my other testcase where domainname is
TEST2.ORG(which is pure samba thing no winbind involved) if You browse network
neighbourhood in windows all other machines are under name TEST2 but samba
server is found from TEST2.ORG. Any chance to get them to be found in same
place?

Even though this email may sound like big whining I REALLY impressed about what
an superb piece of program samba and winbind really are. Maximum respect to all
whom may take credit for it:-)

Cheers,

Juri Ahokas



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