Jeremy Allison
1998-Jul-14 18:31 UTC
Problem : Same name for WORKGROUP and DOMAIN (PR#8352)
keskinv@alpha.sci.ege.edu.tr wrote:> > Our server running samba 1.9.18p8 has name ASTRONOMY and the workgroup name > 's also ASTRONOMY. All Win95 clients has also ASTRONOMY workgroup name. > After the installation of samba 1.9.18p8 on our linux server, all clients > show an error message which indicates that "workgroup name can not be the > same name as server name" during the loading Win95. This was not the case > for the previous version of samba. This error message was the same for some > other previous version of samba but I don't remember the version number.Setting the computer and workgroup name to be identical is a baaaaaad idea. NT will not allow you to do this (try it sometime). I will be adding code to Samba to explicitly disallow identical machine and workgroup names. The reason the previous version of Samba allowed it (1.9.17 probably) was because that version of nmbd was broken in several ways :-). Cheers, Jeremy Allison, Samba Team. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Buying an operating system without source is like buying a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. --------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:> keskinv@alpha.sci.ege.edu.tr wrote: > > > > Our server running samba 1.9.18p8 has name ASTRONOMY and the workgroup name > > 's also ASTRONOMY. All Win95 clients has also ASTRONOMY workgroup name. > > After the installation of samba 1.9.18p8 on our linux server, all clients > > show an error message which indicates that "workgroup name can not be the > > same name as server name" during the loading Win95. This was not the case > > for the previous version of samba. This error message was the same for some > > other previous version of samba but I don't remember the version number. > > Setting the computer and workgroup name to be identical > is a baaaaaad idea. NT will not allow you to do this > (try it sometime). I will be adding code to Samba to > explicitly disallow identical machine and workgroup > names. The reason the previous version of Samba allowed > it (1.9.17 probably) was because that version of nmbd > was broken in several ways :-). > > Cheers, > > Jeremy Allison, > Samba Team. > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------- > Buying an operating system without source is like buying > a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. > -------------------------------------------------------- >We are not using NT in our department. We only have machines which are using Windows 95. I think, for this reason, we did not have problem using the same name. Our server is working for a long time (since 1992) and everybody knows its name. So, it will be too difficult for me to change it's name. But, if I don't have any other chance, this is the only thing to do. Thanks. Varol Keskin Ege University Observatory Bornova 35100, Izmir, TURKEY keskinv@astronomy.sci.ege.edu.tr keskinv@alpha.sci.ege.edu.tr