Win98 command line vs. long filenames

Tulipant Gergely tulipant-gergely at dbrt.hu
Tue Apr 25 18:13:18 GMT 2000


>    I just cranked up Samba 2.0.6 on NetBSD-sun3 1.4. The clients are
> Windows 98 (non-SE). I have had experience with earlier versions of Samba,
> so I was able to get 2.0.6 up and running without great difficulty. I
> exported a directory and was able to mount it on my Win98 machines fine.
> 
>    Using Explorer, everything looked like I expected it to: files were
> listed with their full names and I was able to create files with long names.
> However, when I popped up a command line, DIR did not show the long names

Setting an 'fstype' parameter (other than 'NTFS') in smb.conf can cause this. :(



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