[Bug 735072] Re: The hostname proposed by installer is too long for file sharing to work correctly.

[Chuck Short]

I dont agree with option number 2 because it would break the netbios
protocol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS#NetBIOS_name

Couldn't ubiquity do something reasonable to limit the hostname to
within 16 characters?

chuck

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Title:
  The hostname proposed by installer is too long for file sharing to
  work correctly.