[Samba] Wierd 8.3 Name Mangling
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Tue Nov 2 21:47:10 GMT 2004
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 03:28:57PM -0500, Brian White wrote:
> I've installed Samba 3.0.7 (stock Debian package), but I'm having some
> wierd problems with name mangling. The relevant lines in smb.conf are:
>
> preserve case = yes
> short preserve case = yes
> mangled names = yes
> mangle prefix = 5
> mangling method = hash2
>
> In a share, I did "touch test-file.GHO" to create a long filename. When
> I do a "dir" under DOS, however, it shows:
>
> TVTSSK~S GHO 0 11-02-04 3:07p test-file.GHO
>
> I can't see how samba came up with this mangled name. I tried changing
> the mangle prefix and/or mangle method but it made no difference. I made
> sure I killed the "smbd" process after any changes I made and can see it
> being restarted and a new TCP connection established to it.
The mangle prefix is only used in the hash mangling method. The name
shown (TVTSSK~S GHO) is a has2 mangled name, as to be expected.
Jeremy.
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