[Samba] confusing name mangling results

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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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