Short (MS-DOS) names compatibility with NT

Andrej Borsenkow borsenkow.msk at sni.de
Wed Jun 23 14:23:20 GMT 1999


It may be not a problem, but if I remember it correctly, SAMBA should build the
short names the same as NT (at least, I can recall seeing it in cvs.log). I just
happened to notice, that e.g. when you select Properties for the directory

4.0-real

is Explorer context menu, the MS-DOS name is shown by NT as

49A6E~1.0-R

and by SAMBA as

4~%E.0-R

I think, this may really be an issue, as it may prevent transparent moving of
application from NT to SAMBA drive.

this is with 2.0.4b.

regards

/andrej



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