samba-2, samba-3 client and WXP share name length limitation

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:33, David Wuertele wrote:
> I have a WXP box sharing a folder called "My Difficult Files", which
> is 18 characters long.  I'm looking through the samba docs and code
> for a reason why this share can not be browsed by samba.  I noticed on
> various newsgroups that people had problems with lengths over 12
> characters.  When I created the share, Windows XP itself told me that
> 95/98 boxes wouldn't be able to browse it, but I figured that Samba
> would be a good bet.  I loose.
> 
> Other WXP boxes can browse the share fine.  What are they doing that
> samba-3.0.0 and samba-2.2.8a can't?

Enumeration of shares over RPC.

There was a patch for smbclient at one point, but for some reason it
never got in.  This should be in bugzilla, but if it's not, add it.

Andrew Bartlett

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