On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 23:03:36 -0400 > "Donald R. Gray Jr" <donald.r.gray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Patch to allow numbers in domain names for cifscreds. > > According to this msdn page, we should actually be able to allow more > characters than just alphanumerics in NetBIOS domain names: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264 > > Would it be better to fix the code to just follow those rules instead? Yes - there are only about 10 restricted characters, and even those might not be restricted to some non-Windows servers. It is reasonable to warn in userspace on some of those, but risky to forbid certain domain names. -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
