TRANS.TBL files on Win95 fileserver

Sbragion Denis infotecn at tin.it
Mon May 18 06:15:54 GMT 1998


At 01.52 18/05/98 +1000, you wrote:

>I have a small LAN in my basement, with my PC running RH5 Linux and a
Win95 PC
>connected by Samba. Everything works fine, but when I smbmount a CD (burned
>with xcdroast) from the Linux box (CD is in the Win95 machine) I do not
get the
>proper filenames. All files are uppercase, and the TRANS.TBL files appear
to be
>ignored. I have tried playing with name mangling, but it didn't help. Is
this a
>Samba deficiency, or is it something I've configured wrong?

You need rock-ridge extension to read long file-names on Linux (and not
only Linux) CD's. Win95 doesn't support rock-ridge extension, i.e. this is
not a smbfs problem but a problem of the Win95 ISO driver.

Hope it helps.

Bye!

	Dr. Sbragion Denis
	InfoTecna
	Tel, Fax: +39 39 2324054
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