Shortened sharenames

[August Zajonc]

This does not seem to be true. I of course tried connecting with the
truncated share name and received the following response.

tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an invalid share
name)

I'll confess the defense of this silly 'feature' seems lacking in good
reasons. What is gained by the sharenames to 13 charachters? On the other
hand I can think of a NUMBER of reasons why simply displaying the sharename
is the proper response without doing "fancy" things like shortening it.

I've tried with -dA to see if I can get the rest of the share name to no
avail.

Thanks for your help, but I'm still unclear and why this doesn't simply
display the full share name and avoid this mess.

-AZ


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at HammersHome.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 5:13 PM
> To: August Zajonc; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Shortened sharenames
>
>
> It doesn't seem to matter how long you make the share name. It
> only uses the
> first 13 or so characters. How is this a problem?
> Joel
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:42:17PM -0800, August Zajonc wrote:
> > Doing a little shell scripting with smbclient and noticed that
> >
> > smbclient -N -L host
> >
> > only displays the first 13 charachters of the sharename.
> >
> > Since that is totally crippled feel like I must be missing something
> > obvious, but can't track it down. Any pointers on getting FULL
> sharenames
> > using smbclient?
> >
> > Thanks for the help
> >
> > - AZ
> >
> >
> >
> >
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