NT4 can't access share name length over 12....

[Gerald Carter]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:35:46AM -0700, Gerald Carter wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 May 2001, vuleky wrote:
> >
> > > I installed Samba 2.0.7 on my FreeBSD 4.1 box, it worked very fine for
> > > a long time. But I found my NT server couldn't access the share which
> > > exported by Samba and length was 13. I added a shared folder on an NT
> > > server, and accessed it from another NT server, it worked correctly.
> >
> > It is due to lack of complete UNICODE support in Samba IIRC.
> >
> Until this happens use <= 12 char long share names.
>
> After unicode support is added in, what will the new limit be? 16? 32? 64? 128?
> 256?

256 I think.  But I would have to check to be sure.





jerry
SAMBA Team