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NET USE to 16 Character Dotted-DNS Name May Fail
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NET USE to 16 Character Dotted-DNS Name May Fail

  • To: NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
  • Subject: NET USE to 16 Character Dotted-DNS Name May Fail
  • From: "Greg T. Taylor" <Greg.TaylorNAU.EDU>
  • Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:04:50 -0700
  • Approved-By: Russ.CooperRC.ON.CA
  • Importance: Normal
  • Reply-To: Greg.TaylorNAU.EDU
  • Sender: Windows NT BugTraq Mailing List <NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM>
As a follow up to the 16 character FQDN bug when connecting to SMB
servers...  Microsoft did recognize this bug and has fixed it in sp5.  See
knowledge base article Q221150  for the details.

"NetBIOS names are limited to 16 characters. The last character is reserved
for the system and is a special character used to identify the resource
type. When connecting to a DNS-style name, the sixteenth character was being
modified by the system instead of being passed to the DNS. DNS-style names
should be passed "literally" to the domain name resolver to be resolved"


Q221150 : http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q221/1/50.asp

Thanks,
-Greg

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Greg T. Taylor <greg.taylornau.edu>
Support Systems Analyst
NT Server Systems Programming and Planning
Information Technology Services
Northern Arizona University