internal domain name length!

[eyeball]

hi all

we have just inherited a client from another company and they have installed the sever with a domainname.local which is 18 characters long! i know its only supposed to be 15 characters max.

the server is running sbs 2003, can anyone think of any major problems with this setup? (im trying to push for a reinstall)

at the minute everything seems to be working fine

thanks

[FAT64]

This is a NetBIOS issue. You should be able to just use the first 15 characters of your FQDN; however, if there is a "." in those first 15 characters, replace this with a "-" (hyphen).

[eyeball]

oh right so the shortened netbios name is limited to 15 characters but the standard one isnt limited?

and so no problems should arise?

thanks

[nmX.Memnoch]

Right, the FQDN is not limited to 15 characters...only the NetBIOS name.

[eyeball]

ok got it

thanks a lot for the help