12, not 8 char limit in testparm?

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:12:36PM -0400, David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering wrote:
> Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> >So, that means:
> >- W/9x, W/Me, and smbclient prior to Samba 3.0 cannot read names longer
> >  than 12 bytes.
> >- W/NT4, W2k, W2k3, and W/XP-pro can use the RPC call and read long share
> >  names.
> 
> Then I'll suggest the message contain words like
> 	".. or browsing and connections from Windows 9X and ME
> 	may fail unexpectedly."

Browsing itself doesn't fail.  The RAP calls simply don't return names 
longer than 12 chars.  Those shares are "invisible" to older clients.

Chris -)-----

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