[Samba] upgrade 2.2.8a -> 3.0 Debian DOS long filename problem

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Daniel Zeiss wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I tried to upgrade from Samba 2.2.8a to 3.0.
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| It worked generally speaking fine and speed went up tremendously,
|
| BUT
|
| since then the DOS conversion of long file names is freaking me out.
|
| Using long file names produced a readable short version plus ~1 oder ~x.
| where x stands for a number.
|
| now long file names produce some cryptic 8 letter name plus extension.
| listing in a DOS box additionally shows the correct long name in the far
| right column, but DOS programs like word6 just get the cryptic name.
|
| Is this a result of new Samba 3.0 or Win98? Is it fixable or do I have
| to live with that?

See 'mangling method' in smb.conf(5).  The default in 3.0 was
changed from hash to hash2.




cheers, jerry
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