homes share questions

[Junaid Iqbal]

NT has limitation of 14 chars in share name. I dont know how they manage to have
more then that for native Shares but on Samab if share name is more then 14 then
cant access it, although can access it with smbclient. (NT4 SP 6)

Jason Holland wrote:

> 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.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >