[Samba] Samba 3.02 with dos filenames

Jason C. Waters jwaters at h2os.com
Tue Feb 17 17:34:43 GMT 2004


Nothing, still doesn't work.  Any other ideas?  What does your smb.conf 
look like?  Maybe something else in my global section is conflicting 
with this.

Collen wrote:

>Hmm had the same over here..
>i got it kinda working for me with these smb.conf things..
>
>mangle case = yes       ( dunno why i use this one, but it's there)
>mangling method = hash  (gues hash2 should do the trick as well..)
>mangle prefix = 6       (or 5 ??)
>
>the 6/5 stands for the number of original filename letters 12345~1.zip
>btw
>don't forget to shutdown en restart your samba server, otherwise it
>woun't work..
>
>l8r
>Collen
>
>Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 3:29:05 PM, you wrote:
>
>T> Hi Jason,
>
>T> Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 3:02:59 PM, you wrote:
>JCW>> I have a directory that holds information in a shared directory.  Its
>JCW>> f:\applications.  The program thinks its under f:\applic~1 (which is the
>JCW>> same directory, it works on a windows share).  I've tried everything to
>JCW>> get this to work.  I've set the mangled names = yes and mangled case =
>JCW>> yes, on that share,  but nothing seems to work.  What am I missing?
>
>T> Old DOS-alike programs should see the long filenames as f:\applic~1,
>T> but if they are working than do not make any problem with it.
>
>  
>
>>>From command line (I believe that a program that uses that
>>    
>>
>T> ininformation was made by a program) there are two ways to reach a
>T> long-named directory, eg: c:\progra~1\program\run.exe or "c:\program
>T> files\program\run.exe" (note the double quotation marks: they're
>T> required if You use long-named dir/file names). They are equals!
>T> Search the problem only if You have something wrong in function.
>
>T> BYE: TeeCee :o)
>
>T> Sorry for my English ,-)
>
>
>
>
>  
>


More information about the samba mailing list