NetBIOS Names (Was: Re: Directory listing in libsmbclient.so)

[Welsh, Armand]

Correct, and the DOS redirector, that Microsoft uses limits server names to
11 characters.  Just try addind a long name to NT, it will warn you about
the name length for compatibility with DOS.  Though I have never actually
tried using a DOS client with a long name, NT's GUI does complain that it
could happen.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Christopher R. Hertel [mailto:crh at nts.umn.edu]
-> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 9:22 AM
-> To: Welsh, Armand
-> Cc: Samba Technical
-> Subject: Re: NetBIOS Names (Was: Re: Directory listing in
-> libsmbclient.so)
-> 
-> 
-> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
-> > yes it is, in fact, if you do this on NT, it will warn 
-> that ms-dos clients
-> > won't be able to access the server.  The use of a space, 
-> or more than 8
-> > (maybe 11) characters, can render names unusuable in dos, 
-> and WFW, so if you
-> > want to be compliant with out of date opperating systems, 
-> that just can't
-> > handle the newer, longer names, then you want to block 
-> these conditions,
-> > otherwise, every other OS should be able to handle this 
-> case just fine.
-> 
-> I will believe the bit about the space within the name, but 
-> NetBIOS names 
-> have always been 16 bytes.  This goes back to the original IBM/Sytec 
-> cards that stored the names in on-board RAM.  Filenames 
-> could not be more 
-> than 8.3 (= 11).
-> 
-> Chris -)-----
-> 
-> -- 
-> Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University 
-> of Minnesota
-> crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and 
-> Telecommunications Services
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