long names not working on Windows 2000
Vance Shipley
vances@REDACTED
Thu Jan 11 09:22:24 CET 2001
Raimo Niskanen wries:
> Since Windows 2000 is not explicitly handled by Erlang, it regards
> the OS to be NT or other Windows. You can try "os:type()" to see which.
Here it's:
{win32,nt}
> Erlang reads the domain from the registry, where the TCP/IP protocol
> stack should have put the information. You can try regedit (on NT) and
> find the key:
>
>
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Domai
n
> which should contain the domain name.
This was blank here. There were a number of other places where it was
defined correctly. I believe that with Windows 2000 it seperates things
more by "controllers" (i.e. LAN adaptors).
I manually edited with regedit and low and behold it now works.
Thanks,
-Vance
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