[Samba] Samba - getting long share names from Netapp
Peter Gordon
peter at pg-consultants.com
Tue Jan 17 08:44:57 GMT 2006
Hi Adam,
That works for me as well, usually.
The problem is NetApp specific in that
net -S server -U username rpc share
fails against Netapp.
Peter
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:24 +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> If you create a share >12 chars long testparm gives you this message:
>
> WARNING: You have some share names that are longer than 12 characters.
> These may not be accessible to some older clients.
>
> So I imagine that in the past this hasn't worked at all. It is strange
> though that smbclient would ignore the name entirely without even
> printing some of it (at least this is what happens in 3.0.21rc2.)
>
> For me though the 'net' command worked, I ran:
>
> $ net -S server -U username rpc share
>
> And providing 'username' was a member of the domain it gave me a list of
> shares, including those longer than 12 characters (however this may be
> because I was connecting to a Samba machine that had joined the domain.)
>
> Cheers,
> Adam.
>
>
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