Long User names again
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at samba.org
Wed Feb 23 16:24:37 GMT 2000
ah! that is a limitation of NT - 12 chars is the maximum share length.
you can change the location of profiles to \\server\homedirs\%L\profile
and the problem will go away.
or upgrade to nt5, and the problem will go away.
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Ondrej Hanak wrote:
>
> I found same problem on our SAMBA NTDOM as described by David Bannon.
> Users with too long (e.g. 13 chars) usernames (cause big change from NT
> server to SAMBA, all users we accomodated on Linux)
> did't have H: drive mapped as others. I can see that user's home of his/her
> name in share list, but after effort to connect to this share error
> message appeared: "Can't find share name..."
> I solved this problem by mapping homes in user's login script (net use h:
> \\server\homes).
> Can anybody explain what's wrong?
>
> Cus O.H.
>
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Cole, Timothy D. wrote:
>
> > Hmm. afaiK, there are a number that do allow that. but certainly not a
> > majority.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [SMTP:lkcl at samba.org]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 1:22
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> > > Subject: Re: Long User names
> > >
> > > more than likely. find a unix os that does >8 chars on unix names.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, David Bannon wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Folks,
> > > >
> > > > Who knows about length of user name limits ? I have been using an old
> > > > (Oct99) NTDom stream version in a production situation (NT4sp4) and have
> > > > just found that our IT department is making student logon names as long
> > > as
> > > > 15 characters.
> > > >
> > > > The NTDom side of things is fine, the user is logged on without problems
> > > > but no home directory. The user can browse to homes but not the (homes)
> > > > directory in their name.
> > > >
> > > > Will I see similar problems in Head/TNG or TNG alone ? (if so, maybe I
> > > just
> > > > hack at the old code I have here ...).
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > David Bannon D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au
> > > > School of Biochemistry Phone 61 03 9479 2197
> > > > La Trobe University, Plenty Rd, Fax 61 03 9479 2467
> > > > Bundoora, Vic, Australia, 3083 http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > .... Humpty Dumpty was pushed !
> > > >
> > >
> > > <a href=" mailto:lkcl at samba.org" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton </a>
> > > <a href=" http://cb1.com/~lkcl" > Samba and Network Development </a>
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> > > <a href=" http://www.iss.net" > Internet Security Systems, Inc. </a>
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> > >
> > > ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals
> >
>
<a href=" mailto:lkcl at samba.org" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton </a>
<a href=" http://cb1.com/~lkcl" > Samba and Network Development </a>
<a href=" http://samba.org" > Samba Web site </a>
<a href=" http://www.iss.net" > Internet Security Systems, Inc. </a>
<a href=" http://mcp.com" > Macmillan Technical Publishing </a>
ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals
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