Share name longer than 13 characters with winbind and win95

Simo Sorce simo.sorce at polimi.it
Thu Feb 22 08:06:27 GMT 2001


This should be avoided with the new code Tridge has included to support
unicode, it is in HEAD just now.
I will test it asap as I was awaiting for that functionality for soo long
:)
If only vmware will work with 2.4.x kernels :)
If you want to test get HEAD branch from CVS.

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Stephen Collier wrote:

> I've just installed winbind and (which is working well) but the share names
> produced for homes are more than 13 characters which causes WIN95 clients to
> fail. eg home of PANAVISION+markc, client requests PANAVISION+ma and failure
> occurs. Does anyone have a solution as I would like to keep winbind and no
> choice over WIN95. I can send logs if required.
>
> Regards
> Stephen Collier
>
>

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