Print Share Length Limit?

[Gene Yee]

Point taken, I won't count on it being fixed anytime soon.  If I was skilled 
for the task, I would say it was worth it.  Since I work for a large 
corporation, this would involve a fairly major name convention change.  We 
are use to doing something similar to 'B10L Dinosaur'.  Building 10 Lower 
Floor Dinosaur.  Now of course I think we need to ax the flintstone naming 
convention, but people enjoy give the printers funky names for some 
reason...

>From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at samba.org>
>To: Gene Yee <gene_yee at hotmail.com>
>CC: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
>Subject: Re: Print Share Length Limit?
>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:18:31 +1100
>
>On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Gene Yee wrote:
>
> >
> > Understandable to NT4.0 might not handle it very gracefully and error 
>out.
> > But NT does support 255 characters in a share name, at least when using 
>a
> > actual NT box as a print server.
>
>no it doesn't, even NT to NT.  printing may be different.
>
> >  Anyway to make Samba work with NT4.0 in this way?
>
>
>hmm, i wonder if NT to NT uses different MSRPC calls or something?  the
>onlly way is to obtain a comparative trace and work at it for several
>days, maybe a couple of weeks, slowly working through the differences in
>netmon traffic until you get it right.
>
>personally, is it worth _my_ time to provide that functionality (unpaid)
>when a simple solution is to rename the printer shares?  if there was _no_
>alternative solution i might consider it.
>
>thx,
>
>luke
>

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