[Samba] Permissions and long filenames

[Rohan Parkes]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 05:21, Rohan Parkes wrote:

> All of the shares are working correctly except for the My Documents
> folder, which only has read permissions. All the shares are on a FAT 32
> partition, and all have the same security settings (the Everyone account
> has full control).
> 
> The only difference I can see is that My Documents has a long file name.

It appears that Samba has a problem if the My Documents folder is a
Windows "Special Folder". Once I stopped pointing the My Documents
desktop icon to it, making it just a normal folder called My Documents,
the problem disappeared.

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Rohan Parkes
Melbourne
Australia