samba and usernames

[Jeff Burson]

Hello all,

I'm putting into production a samba server on rh6.1 with samba-2.0.5a-12 
(installed via rpm).

The goal is to have windows 9x and nt 4.0 (sp5 and sp6) access 
individual user directories on that server. The unix password file 
matches username values as stored on our NT domain. 

some of the globals:

security = server 
password server = OURPDCNetBIOSNAME

under share functions:

    comment = Home Directories
    browseable = no
    writable = yes  


With one exception, everything works fine. Users can browser network 
neighborhood to the server in question, doubleclick and their folder 
pops up with their UNIX $HOME underneath. They can click into their 
directory and do what they want.

(smbclient works as well).

Here's the one problem I'm running into. Usernames with character 
lengths greater than 12 characters don't work under network neighborhood.

They do work under smbclient, but not Network neighborhood. They can 
display their accessible folders:

server --->
	username
	xfers

but when they click on their username folder, it says Network Path not
found.

smbclient continues to work for these users. The problem is specific
to accessing the share from within NT (and probably windows 9x)

Looking thru the archives, I tried setting manually setting 
protocol = NT1    and 
protocol = LANMAN2 

with no success. 

I've contemplated username maps, but that seems ugly.

Any ideas?

jeff