Re: Rendom /prepare fails to connect to server ‘failed to bind to

Ok, in fact "Last time i check" you can change Netbios name as long as the
FFL is at 2003 or later.

But before doing that, go to SQL ngs and check the how to configure the SQL
dB of the MOSS to allow the ampersand as normal char, then go to the MOSS
newsgroups and check if doing that change on SQL will have impact at MOSS.

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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.

Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services

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"Paul Sanders" <PaulSanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4EF62DB9-60E9-49D5-90C5-D21C6033579C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The error when doing a crawl is:
Error in the Site Data Web Service. (*** An error occurred while parsing
EntityName. Line 1, position 320.)

The only other reference on the web to this was an account with & in the
account name. However as I stated our NetBIOS name contains a '&' which woudl
have the same effect, I believe this will be be because the string is held in
SQL and & will terminate the query string early thus rendering the account
useless.

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Paul Sanders
B&CE Benefit Schemes


"Jorge Silva" wrote:

Hi
What errors are you getting in MoSS? Did you checked at MOSS newsgroups?
NetBIOS domain names
Allowed characters
NetBIOS domain names can contain all alphanumeric characters except for the
extended characters that are listed in the "Disallowed characters" section.
Names can contain a period, but names cannot start with a period.
Disallowed characters
NetBIOS computer names cannot contain the following characters: • backslash
(\)
• slash mark (/)
• colon (:)
• asterisk (*)
• question mark (?)
• quotation mark (")
• less than sign (<)
• greater than sign (>)
• vertical bar (|)
Names can contain a period (.). However, the name cannot start with a
period. The use of non-DNS names with periods is allowed in Microsoft
Windows NT. However, periods should not be used in Active Directory domains.
If you are upgrading a domain whose NetBIOS name contains a period, change
the name by migrating the domain to a new domain structure. Do not use
periods in new NetBIOS domain names.

DNS computer names
Allowed characters
DNS computer names can contain only alphabetical characters (A-Z), numeric
characters (0-9), the minus sign (-), and the period (.). Period characters
are allowed only when they are used to delimit the components of domain
style names.

In the Windows 2000 domain name system (DNS) and in the Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 DNS, the use of Unicode characters is supported. Other
implementations of DNS do not support Unicode characters. Avoid Unicode
characters if queries will be passed to the servers that use non-Microsoft
implementations of DNS.

For more information, visit the following non-Microsoft Web sites:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc952.txt (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc952.txt)
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt)
Disallowed characters
DNS host names cannot contain the following characters:• comma (,)
• tilde (~)
• colon (:)
• exclamation point (!)
• at sign (@)
• number sign (#)
• dollar sign ($)
• percent (%)
• caret (^)
• ampersand (&)
• apostrophe (')
• period (.)
• parentheses (())
• braces ({})
• underscore (_)

check KB909264
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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.

Jorge Silva
MCSE, MVP Directory Services

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