Print Share Length Limit?

Stephen Waters swaters at amicus.com
Mon Jan 24 20:45:41 GMT 2000


i'm on a mixed network w/ OSR2, win98, ntws sp 4,5,6a,  and i find that
i have trouble with any share names (printer or file) over 12 chars. on
the whole, i suggest making shares 12 or less characters with no spaces.

-s

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> > > Everything in general appears to work OK, however shares with names longer
> > > than 12 characters fails to print from WinNT 4.0.  I have not tested in
> > > other enviroments except for Win2k which does print OK.
> >
> > Known program fault with NT I believe.
> 
> oh.  yes.  it is.  fixed in nt5.


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