Share name longer than 13 characters with winbind and win95

Stephen Collier stephenc at panavision.com.au
Fri Feb 23 06:03:08 GMT 2001


I will get a copy of the HEAD branch and give it a go, Thanks

Regards
Stephen Collier
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simo Sorce [mailto:simo.sorce at polimi.it]
> Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2001 19:06
> To: Stephen Collier
> Cc: 'samba-technical at samba.org'
> Subject: Re: Share name longer than 13 characters with 
> winbind and win95
> 
> 
> 
> 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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