Re: 15 character limit?
- From: "Herb Martin" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 20:51:54 -0500
".:mmac:." <lost@sea> wrote in message
news:uz$nf27OFHA.3560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Yep, I'm confused all right.
> that must be what happened, it truncated automatically.
You can never set a "visible" NetBIOS name longer
than 15 characters since the OS uses character position
#16 for system purposes -- every NetBIOS name on the
network is EXACTLY 16 characters long so only the
first 15 are available for domains, computers, user names
etc. (and in fact I would restrict it to 14 characters for
true safety.)
> How can I see if there are more than 15 in the netbios name if all that
will
> be shown is the first 15?
There will never be more than that -- if you use a longer
DNS name it will be TRULY truncated -- this is NOT just
a display issue. (The extra characters are gone.)
> I think the netbios name (the shortened one) is what shows up in the
logon
> dialog and the domain name (the full name) is only in DNS?
> I gotta wrap my head around this seemingly simple concept!
Right. It used the DNS to pick the NetBIOS name by truncating
it -- and since you didn't override it then "what you see is what
you get."
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