DOS filenames mangled - HELP please -DONE!

[R.J. 'Red' Clanton, P.E.]

After setting "mangle case = no" and restarting samba
then the Win98 stations all maped the DOS names as short 8.3
without any other actions (ie. I did not have to recopy the files.)
Don't you love it when it works..

----- Original Message -----
From: R.J. 'Red' Clanton, P.E. <redman1 at gte.net>
To: <samba-technical at samba.org>
Cc: Christopher R. Hertel <crh at nts.umn.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 10:26 AM
Subject: Fw: DOS filenames mangled - HELP please


> This old dos program looks at the short dos name on the left not the
> windows long name on the right.  Yesterday in the book Samba Unleashed
> by Steve Litt et al., I found the an example using "mangle case = yes"
that
> referred to the name mapping from long names to 8.3 format.
> Is this the one parameter that needs to change?
> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION!!
>
> > I sincerely do not understand your description of the problem.  What I
> > see appears to list both the short and long names, so the DOS program
> > should be able to access the file.  Could you clarify?
> > Chris -)-----
> >
> > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > > This isn't romantic but it is needed.  Please Help.
> > > It is fast and stable BUT when using an old DOS program we found
> > > from a Win98E2 machine in a DOS window the command DIR :
> > >      Volume in drive R is R
> > >      Directory of R:\AA\SUNLAKE\Crd
> > >     .              <DIR>        07-20-00 11:06a .
> > >     ..             <DIR>        07-20-00 11:02a ..
> > >     SL99-~#5 CRD         1,024  03-09-99 11:03a SL99-1.CRD
> > >     SL99-~W8 IDX         2,048  03-09-99 11:03a SL99-1.IDX
> > >              2 file(s)          3,072 bytes
> > >              2 dir(s)        7,615.00 MB free
> > > The old DOS program needs the short name.
> > >
> > > Here is the  smb.conf  file:
> > > # /etc/smb.conf for RedMan Server Lx1
> > > #============================ Share Definitions =====
> > > # the public open partition for drawing data base.
> > > [R]
> > >     comment = RedMan drive R
> > >     path = /home/rdata/R
> > >     public         = yes
> > >     read only      = no
> > >     guest ok       = yes
> > >     case sensitive = no
> > >     mangle case    = yes
> > >     preserve case  = yes
> > >     browseable     = yes
> > >     writable       = yes
> > >     printable      = no
> > >     map archive    = yes
> > >     map hidden     = yes
> > >     map system     = yes
> > >     create mask    = 0777
> > >     directory mask = 0777
> > > # end
> >
> > --
> > Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
> > crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services
> >
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> >
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