12, not 8 char limit in testparm?

David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering David.Collier-Brown at sun.com
Tue Sep 16 17:01:56 GMT 2003


That looks fine to me!

--dave

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.
> 
> Chris -)-----
> 
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:21:25AM -0400, David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering wrote:
> 
>>Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Browsing itself doesn't fail.  The RAP calls simply don't return names 
>>>longer than 12 chars.  Those shares are "invisible" to older clients.
>>
>>	Hmmn... how about "...these shares may be invisible
>>	to Windows 9X and ME clients".
>>
>>	I admit I'm also assuming that all the old copies of
>>	smbclient were taken out of service by the time
>>	this message gets into production (;-))
>>
>>--dave
>>
>>-- 
>>David Collier-Brown,       | Always do right. This will gratify
>>Sun Microsystems,          | some people and astonish the rest.
>>Toronto, Ontario,          |                      -- Mark Twain
>>(905) 415-2849 or x52849   | davecb at canada.sun.com
>>
>>
> 
> 


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David Collier-Brown,       | Always do right. This will gratify
Sun Microsystems,          | some people and astonish the rest.
Toronto, Ontario,          |                      -- Mark Twain
(905) 415-2849 or x52849   | davecb at canada.sun.com





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