Installing shared Windoze executables on a Samba share (fwd)
Craig Fischer
CraigF at visio.com
Thu Oct 8 18:43:01 GMT 1998
Visio's install program use the GetVolumnInformation() API to check for
long filename support. The docs say that if the value 255 is returned, then
the (FAT/NTFS) file system supports long filenames. For various reasons, it
actually checks for this return value to be >= 240 in order for there to be
long filename support.
Samba has a hard-coded return value of 128 (see trans2.c, somewhere around
line 1100), thus the failure. I suppose you could change this value to 240
and recompile Samba, but I really wouldn't recommend that since it would
probably cause other catastrophic problems.
...Craig...
(Opinions expressed are my own.)
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:finn at midco.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 6:48 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Installing shared Windoze executables on a
Samba share (fwd)
Hi,
I've got a Samba server here that runs great! I've got an
NT machine on
my laptop and I can interface with the Samba server directly
in any way
I want, except for one thing:
When I try to install a program (Visio) as a network shared
app, the
installation always tells me "I've determined that the
target drive
doesn't support long file names" after I choose to install
to the Samba
share. This is obviously ubll, but how do I convince the
install?
I've tried fiddling around with "mangled names", "preserve
case", "short
preserve case", etc. (I've read the manpage and looked in
the
/usr/doc/examples directory for some clues ...)
Any ideas? I notice that the Samba share has "Filesystem:
Samba" when I
look at its properties in Explorer ... do I need to change
that?
--
Nathan Norman
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