[Bug 338411] Re: Cannot retreive share list if samba client and server have the same hostname

[Steve Langasek]

It's self-evidently impossible to have two machines on the network using
the same name and be able to distinguish between them when trying to
connect using that name.  The problem is that when there's a NetBIOS
name collision affecting workgroup browsing, the user isn't given any
feedback that this is the case.  So what you wind up with 50% of the
time (or more) is that the local system has a different idea of the name
mapping than every other machine on the network.

With MDNS, avahi automatically resolves name collisions by calculating a
new name for itself (e.g., foo.local -> foo-1.local).  I don't think
this is appropriate for NetBIOS, but we do need some feedback channel
from nmbd that lets the user know there's a namespace collision.

** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Cannot retreive share list if samba client and server have the same hostname
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338411
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