[Samba] Long Share Names and Windows NT Workstation 4.0

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Grabham, Keith wrote:

> Hello, Can anyone advise if there is a limit on the length of share
> names in Samba when accessing via NT Workstation 4.0 clients? It seems
> that the limit is 12 characters for NT, our Windows 98, 2000 and XP
> machines work with longer share names. If so does anyone know if there
> is a patch to make long share names work with NTWS 4.0?

it's an nt4 bug when communicating with a non-unicode server.




cheers, jerry
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