[Samba] smbclient: support for long share names..?

John Benedetto jbenedet at unm.edu
Tue Nov 19 22:08:13 GMT 2002


I thought the 13 character limit was a 'feature' of NT, and thus Samba 
reflects that "feature", too... anyone know?

--On Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:56 PM -0500 Diana McKenna 
<dmckenna at mathworks.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> If I create a 13 char long share on a filer or a windows workstation (a
> windows 2000 workstation for example) and then run sbmclient to list the
> shares on that system smbclient will not list any shares greater than 12
> chars long.  I can see and access the long share name on my windows 2000
> system and I can see it on the system where the share was created but
> smbclient will not list it.




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