Comment 6 for bug 735072

Some commentary from IRC:

zul: ev: ping for the samba bug, couldnt ubiquity do something sensible and not allow more that 16 characters in a hostname?
[18:04] ScottK: Why is a 16 character hostname limit sensible?
[18:04] ev: zul: this is a limitation in netbios, not linux.
[18:05] ev: ScottK: indeed
[18:06] ev: I think this is best solved where the problem arises, in Samba. I can talk to another machine with more than 16 characters in its hostname using every other network protocol I can think of.
[18:06] ev: equally, you can set the hostname outside of the installer, so even if we did this in ubiquity, the problem would remain.
[18:07] zul: ev: right its a problem with netbios...so something like print a warning or something
[18:08] ScottK: RFC 1123 says "Host software MUST handle host names of up to 63 characters and SHOULD handle host names of up to 255 characters."
[18:08] zul: ScottK: right ill get on changing the netbios protocol
[18:09] ScottK: I understand the problem.
[18:09] • ScottK imagines a netbios equivalent for hostnames of 8.3 long/short filenames.

I am firmly against modifying ubiquity to work around limitations in the NetBIOS protocol. This belongs in Samba.