[Samba] confusing name mangling results
Gerald (Jerry) Carter
jerry at samba.org
Wed Sep 4 00:34:00 GMT 2002
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 gk at proliberty.com wrote:
> I have not changed the default name mangling in smb.conf.
> I looked at the latest samba sources in cvs and it appears that there
> are a couple of different mangling/hash options so I am suspecting
> that Samba is NOT conforming to a standard algorithm to be compatible
> with Microsoft.
There is no real "standard" here to conform with. Samba's providing
a service that is provided by the filesystem on NTFS (& FAT).
> I don't know for sure who is doing the mangling here.
> Is it Samba or DAVE?
smbd. I haven't played with Dave much so I can't comment here.
cheers, jerry
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