[Samba] trouble with long filename copy

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:27:44PM +0200, beijnes at xs4all.nl wrote:
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> L.S.
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> I'm a new member here. I've been using Samba for about 7 years now.
> Usually in Win 98/2K environment, but recently also in XP environments
> My server basis is either Debian or Ubuntu linux.
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> Problem:
> when someone drags and drops a folder from one location to another
> on a windows client, they get an error saying
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> "this location does not support long filenames"
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> or
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> "the filename contains characters not supported by the target"
> 
> (since I'm not in vicinity of the offending system I heve to
> reproduce error messages from the mind)
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> When in the same setup, content is copied to clipboard ([CTRL]+[C])
> and subsequently pasted ([CTRL]+[V]), the problem does not occur...
> 
> Does anyone have a clue?
> 
> At first I thought of a codepage issue, but for Samba 3.0.10 neither
> SWAT nor the samba.org website shows codepage selection options
> in smb.conf
> Ubuntu uses nl_NL at UTF-8 environment settings in this case.

This sounds like a Win9x client bug only. You might want to try
a later Samba release as I fixed a bug w.r.t. this for 3.0.14a
I think.

Jeremy.