Question on short/mangled file name.

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 06:35:21PM -0700, Hemanth Thummala wrote:
> Regarding client behavior, one of our customer reported an issue saying
> software installation in his client workstation is failing with error
> "Error 1325: 'Favorites' is not a valid short name". He is getting this
> error when he sets the registry settings for Favorites as our server home
> directory path (ex: \\server\share\testusername\favorites). This error is
> not seen when he sets the path as  \\server\share\<samba generated short
> name for "test user">\<samba generated short name for "favorites">. Based
> on this I assume that client would have expected short name in window
> style. When its specified explicitly, its started working fine. If we have
> generated short name in windows style, client would have not thrown this
> error. I agree that I assumed few things here. But would like to understand
> why our short file names are not in windows style.

The main reason is I believe that Samba generates them
on-the-fly and does not store them anywhere. Windows stores
them in NTFS, Samba does not. We could in theory put that
into an xattr, but right now we don't.

Volker

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