When any computer, having russian workgroup name (russian editions of windows 
enable such names), tries to connect to samba server, exception 11 is raised 
and nmbd dies. This is extract from log.nmbd:

[2003/11/03 14:17:23, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(396)
  *****
  
  Samba name server SRV is now a local master browser for workgroup YWRZ on 
subnet 192.168.0.1
  
  *****
[2003/11/03 14:17:23, 0] nmbd/nmbd_workgroupdb.c:create_workgroup(63)
  create_workgroup: workgroup name ¨l§³¨l§Ô¨l§Ö¨l§µ¨l§²¨l§½¨l§Ó¨l§·¨l§Ñ¨l§º¨l§á is too long. 
Truncating to ¨l§³¨l§Ô¨l§Ö¨l§µ¨l§²¨l§½¨l§Ó¨l
[2003/11/03 14:17:23, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(36)
  ===============================================================
[2003/11/03 14:17:23, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(37)
  INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 1428 (3.0.0)
  Please read the appendix Bugs of the Samba HOWTO collection
[2003/11/03 14:17:23, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39)
  ===============================================================
[2003/11/03 14:17:23, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1400)
  PANIC: internal error
[2003/11/03 14:17:23, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1407)
  BACKTRACE: 17 stack frames:
   #0 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(smb_panic+0xfc) [0x80af4b8]
   #1 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd [0x80a0d8b]
   #2 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd [0x42028c48]
   #3 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(__libc_free+0x7c) [0x42074a2c]
   #4 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(vasprintf+0x119) [0x4206a1b9]
   #5 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(x_vfprintf+0x16) [0x80a76a2]
   #6 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(Debug1+0xc8) [0x80a0a18]
   #7 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(dbghdr+0x94) [0x80a0c08]
   #8 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd [0x8072652]
   #9 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(create_workgroup_on_subnet+0x21) [0x80729a5]
   #10 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd [0x80732ac]
   #11 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd [0x8073482]
   #12 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(sync_check_completion+0x3d) [0x8073551]
   #13 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(strftime+0x1814) [0x805f3c8]
   #14 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(main+0x393) [0x805f92f]
   #15 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(__libc_start_main+0xa4) [0x420158d4]
   #16 /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd(chroot+0x31) [0x805e4d5]

Appears that win98 represents russian workgroupname as ¨l§³¨l§Ô¨l§Ö¨l§µ¨l§²¨l§½¨l§Ó¨l§·¨l§Ñ¨l§º¨l§á,
while windows-visible name is "Buhgalteria", which is exactly 2 times shorter 
than reported by samba. May be this leads to some kind of buffer overflow?

Alex Peshkoff.