homes share questions

[Kevin (HxPro) Wheatley]

James Sutherland wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 May 2000, Ron Alexander wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I can accept that homes is a "magic" share, but where does Ron_Alexander
> > (my NT and VOS login) come from? I thought that Samba was being clever
> > enough to actually create the share name using my login name, and was
> > confused by the fact that there was 2 'home dir shares'. I actually can't
> > access the Ron_Alexander share, so I set up a username map to map me to
> > samba1. Then I do see my home dir under both homes and samba1.
> 
> It sounds like some limitation on either share name length or usernames -
> or is it objecting to the "_"? Have you tried, say, changing to
> "RonAAlexander" or similar?
> 
> James.

Last time I looked a sharename length of 12 was the limit

Kevin

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