WfW troubles

[Sergey Alexandrov]

David Bannon <D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au> said:

> At 04:39 AM 08/11/2000 -0000, Sergey Alexandrov wrote:
> >Hi, All !!!
> >
> >only one problem - with WfW workstation. Problem: WfW can see ONLY files
> >with EXACTLY 8.3 format, i.e. when name is 8 chars length and ext. is 3
> chars.
> 
> Serg, what do you mean, it fails on a file name that is less than 8.3 ?
> 
> ie thisname.txt is ok but notthis.txt   ?
> 

Yep.

> If you mean that names longer than 8.3, then that was a WFW limitation !

But some long names mangled correctly...
 
> Do you really need to use WFW ??

Yes, I's my big trouble, but I can't get away this station. :((

Anyway, with Dec 1999 samba-2.1.0-prealpha this WS work correctly !!!!

-- 
Best, Serg <serg at tv2.tomsk.su>