Share name longer than 13 characters with winbind and win95

Simo Sorce simo.sorce at polimi.it
Fri Feb 23 23:10:46 GMT 2001


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
>

In a previous message I stated that possibly in HEAD branch this problem
was solved.

Sorry, just got a closer look at Tridge's code and found he have
implemented unicode support only for client and not for server yet, so the
problem is still here.

Simo.

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