During your planning and migration, DNS character set limitations require
special attention. NetBIOS names used in previous versions of Windows may
contain additional characters that are illegal in DNS (namely,
~!@#$%^&'.(){}, and not supported by any DNS server implementation) or
characters (e.g. Unicode characters) that are supported by only a few DNS
server implementations (e.g. Windows 2000 DNS servers). When a Windows NT
4.0 computer is upgraded to Windows 2000, its NetBIOS name is preserved and
is used as the Computer Name (i.e. the first label in the computer full DNS
name). If before an upgrade a computer NetBIOS name contained Unicode
characters, then its A (host) record can be added to a DNS database if a DNS
server supports Unicode characters (e.g. Windows 2000 DNS servers). If in
your organization a large number of the computers have NetBIOS names
containing Unicode characters, then you may want to make a DNS server
supporting Unicode characters be authoritative for the A records of the
computers, since it may not be very practical to rename a large number of
computers. If before an upgrade a computer NetBIOS name contained illegal
characters (from DNS perspective), then computer's A (host) record cannot be
added to a DNS database. In this case you will have to rename the computers
to register the A records corresponding to these computers.=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry R=FCter [mailto:harry_rueter@gmx.de]
Sent: 20 September 2002 15:23
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] "@" doesn't work in the NT domain name
Hi,
[ ...]> > 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
> > complyin this regard. =20
AFAIK an ampersand is the char "&" , is it just the wrong word for
the
char or is the "@" not allowed in netbios domain names ?
Greets Harry
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