homes share questions

Jason Holland jphollan at earthlink.net
Mon May 22 16:00:36 GMT 2000


NT does not have this limitation, that I know of.  Are you sure permissions
are correct?  What version of NT and/or service pack are you connecting
from?  Maybe someone else on the list has had a similar issue such as this.

Jason

>
> Does DOS include NT? Can somebody verify whether NT is limited to eight
> characters or not.
>
> I do find it strange however that the folder name is the full length. That
> would imply that the server sent the full name, and the client
> received the
> full name.
>
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Holland [mailto:jphollan at earthlink.net]
> Sent: May 22, 2000 11:48 AM
> To: rcalex at home.com; Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
> Subject: RE: homes share questions
>
>
> >From the smb.conf man page
>
> "On a similar note, many clients - especially DOS clients - limit service
> names to eight characters.  Smbd has no such limitation, but attempts to
> connect from such clients will fail if they truncate the services names.
> For this reason you should probably keep your services names down
> to either
> characters in length."
>
> Jason
>
> >
> > Changing both my NT and VOS names would be more work than I care for.
> >
> > To re-iterate for all those still listening, what I see on my NT is:
> > homes			<<<<<<<<<<<< The contents of this folder is
> > my VOS home dir
> > Ron_Alexander	<<<<<<<<<<<< I get an error when I click on
> this folder
> > tmp
> > temp
> > printers
> >
> > If I log on as root, I get:
> > homes			<<<<<<<<<<<< The contents of this folder is
> > my VOS home dir
> > root			<<<<<<<<<<<< The contents of this folder is
> > my VOS home dir too
> > tmp
> > temp
> > printers
> >
> > I am 99.99% sure I saw a msg in a log file that had
> 'Ron_Alexan' in it. I
> > have looked for some place that limits the share name to 10
> chars with no
> > luck so far.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ron
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Sutherland [mailto:jas88 at cam.ac.uk]
> > Sent: May 22, 2000 11:14 AM
> > To: Ron Alexander
> > Cc: 'Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL'
> > Subject: RE: homes share questions
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
>
>



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