Shortened sharenames

[Joel Hammer]

I poked around in the source code. (Which is about as intelligible as
Chinese to me.)
In client.c, there is a printf statement, which specifies printing only 15
characters at most. I changed it to print 30, but, smbclient still only
prints a 15 character share name, the rest is just padded blanks. I can't
figure out where the name is determined, likely in some other program, but,
who knows.  So, I am stumped.
Joel
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:12:31PM -0800, August Zajonc wrote:
> 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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