%U in share name

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Oct 17 20:37:04 GMT 2001


On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Todd Pfaff wrote:

> It would be helpful if a log message was generated whenever a %macro
> is ignored, indicating why it is being ignored.
>
> Also, something in the release notes about changes like this, if it
> was an intended change, would be nice.  From Jerry's response though,
> it seems this was not an intentional change.

nope. I was a bug. I'm working on includes and %G now. Given that a share
name has a length limitation (what was it...256 characters?), I think
we'll be alright.  Parameter values on the other hand can be much longer
(although we cap at 1024 right now).






jerry





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