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

Diana McKenna dmckenna at mathworks.com
Fri Nov 22 17:58:02 GMT 2002


If no one has any further information on this, I'll submit this as a bug.

Thanks!

Diana


At 03:07 PM 11/19/2002 11/19/2002, John Benedetto wrote:
>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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