[Samba] Shares with long names not accessible from winNT...

[Satish K. Pagare]

Kai Blin wrote:

>>I am able to browse this share through win2k but not from winNT.
>>But If I change the share name to [Satish] , basically a short name
>>I am able to browse it thru winnt as well. Is this expected behaviour?
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>Indeed it is. Try running testparm with a long sharename. it'll tell you
>btw, can't you put the description into description, and not into the share 
>name?
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Thanks ! I checked the smb.conf with testparm and now the share names
are no longer more than 8 characters. Actually I wanted to make the
share names also more than 8 charcters. but apparently its not allowed !:(

Regards,
Satish/

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>>Any workaround, solutions ?
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>See above.
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>HTH, Kai
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