12, not 8 char limit in testparm?

Christopher R. Hertel crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Tue Sep 16 15:42:04 GMT 2003


On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:33:06AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:28:54AM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> > Well, I've made a change...  It currently reads:
> 
> > WARNING: You have some share names that are longer than 12 characters.
> > These may not be accessible to some older clients.
> > (Eg. Windows9x, WindowsMe, and smbclient prior to Samba 3.0.
> 
> > I'm happy to change it to something better if there is agreement.
> 
> I don't remember ever having problems accessing long share names from
> pre-3.0 smbclient?  Or does this refer to the fact that smbclient -L
> won't display them?

Yes.  :)

...that is, it refers to the fact that smbclient -L uses the RAP call
which is not capable of returning share names longer than 12 characters.

Chris -)-----

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