The NetBIOS name of the computer is limited to 15 bytes

madankarmukta

HI,
I want to set my computername to be greate than 15 bytes.How can i do that since when i set the name greter that 15 bytes it's give me message that "The NetBIOS name of the computer is limited to 15 bytes" .

Can anybody tell me how can i edit this limit of 15 bytes of NetBIOS name ..?

Thanks!

insertAlias

If it says that it is the limit, I think that it is a strict limit

madankarmukta

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Originally Posted by insertAlias

If it says that it is the limit, I think that it is a strict limit

Thanks for the update.
But i want to exceed that limit ? How can i do that ?

Thanks!

insertAlias

I'm pretty sure you can't.

Plater

NetBios has a 15character limit. A windows (and probably linux) domain can exceed that limit, but your computer will either not function with NetBios or its name will be truncated to 15characters.

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