[Samba] DOS Long Directory names?

[Brandon Laing]

Hi list,

Having some trouble getting Samba to properly display directory names for a DOS machine. Basically, I have a few old DOS 6.2 boxes mapped to a Samba box to drop some files into. The folder name on the Samba box is 'filerouter' (no quotes). Under the normal DOS filename structure, I would assume the name would be adjusted to filerou~1, or something similar, to fit with the 8.3 standard. Instead, I'm getting something very strange like FF8DZ9~C. I've been trying to find out if there is any way I can control this, or get Samba to properly display the directory name under DOS, but so far I haven't had much luck. I did try playing around a bit with the 'mangled names' option in the smb.conf file. If I force mangled names to be turned off, then I can't see any folders at all unless I create them from DOS, but then I lose some functionality from other programs that look to this folder. We have a bunch of DOS scripts set up though, looking for the folder name to include the ~ in the path, so I'm hoping there is a way to get this set up properly. Anyone have any advice? I don't see why Samba is doing this, or how it could be a good thing. If I had more than 1 folder that was longer than 8 characters, there is no way I'd be able to tell which folder was which with these strange, cryptic names. Other Linux boxes and Windows boxes see the folders just fine, just not DOS. How can I specify how I want these folder displayed?

BTW, the Linux box is running Fedora Core 1 with all the latest updates installed.

Thanks,
Brandon