[Samba] Samba 2.2.3a + NT4 + Long share names

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 02:30:19PM -0600, Stout, Brandon wrote:
> I'm sure this has been discussed many times over, but I am new to this mailing list and I couldn't find any information on Google.
> 
> I have Samba 2.2.3a running on Solaris 7.  I have many share names over 11 characters on this server.  Windows 2000 clients can access the long share names just fine.  The NT 4 clients choke on any share name over 11 characters.
> 
> I'm sure this is already known, but can someone provide more information on the cause of this and if there is a work-around, or this will be fixed in 2.2.4 or 3.0?

Known bug in NT4.x connecting to non unicode servers.
Will not work in 2.2.4 (not unicode on the wire) but
will work in 3.0 (will be unicode on the wire).

REgards,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.