[Samba] Can I have share name "shareone" and "share one" at the same time?

Young-Jun Oh yjonly at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 17:06:56 GMT 2008


Hi,

Thanks for your info! It helped!

I think it is a bug on 3.0.10. I tried 3.0.25b and it works fine. I'm trying
to compile 3.0.28 now.

Thanks!

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Douglas VanLeuven <roamdad at sonic.net>
wrote:

> Young-Jun Oh wrote:
> > Hello Samba community!
> >
> > I recently found out interesting behavior of share name with Samba and
> did
> > not find any useful information on the net. If anyone knows why I'm
> having
> > this problem, I would feel like I could fly!
> >
> > Thanks in Advance.
> >
> > The problem I have is that I can not get following two shares working at
> the
> > same time.
> >
> > in my smb.conf file,
> >
> > [shareone]
> > comment = shareone
> > path=/shareone
> > printable = no
> > public = yes
> > writeable = Yes
> >
> > [share one]
> > comment = share one
> > path=/share one
> > printable = no
> > public = yes
> > writeable = Yes
> >
> > I can get either one of them to work but not at the same time. I tried
> > quote(") around share one. I tried "share\ one". I tried share\040one.
> But
> > none of them worked.
> >
> > I tried these names for share in Windows XP and they worked fine at the
> same
> > time.
> >
> > I'm sure this kind of share names on same computer would be very rare
> but
> > I'm just curious.
>
> I was curious too.  So I tried it out.  Works fine for me.  I'm using
> opensuse 10.3 and using the samba.org repository for samba 3.0.28.
>
> What version of samba are you using?
> If it's behind current, are you able to upgrade to a more current release?
>
> Regards, Doug
>


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