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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> > >  
> > > 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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