docs: Documents length limitations for NetBIOS name
authorAndreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:22:40 +0000 (13:22 +0200)
committerAndreas Schneider <asn@cryptomilk.org>
Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:35:48 +0000 (19:35 +0200)
BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11401

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
Autobuild-User(master): Andreas Schneider <asn@cryptomilk.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Wed Jul 15 19:35:48 CEST 2015 on sn-devel-104

docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/netbiosname.xml

index 3369e3ee54992ba0a06db14d141daa727f6362d8..ed7dd5ec57d3bfdab9f43a1d8cd2d09f01883df0 100644 (file)
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
                the hosts DNS name) will be the name that these services are advertised under.
                </para>
 
+               <para>Note that the maximum length for a NetBIOS name is 15 charactars.</para>
+
                <para>
                There is a bug in Samba that breaks operation of browsing and access to shares if the netbios name
                is set to the literal name <literal>PIPE</literal>. To avoid this problem, do not name your Samba