[Samba] trouble with long filename copy

beijnes at xs4all.nl beijnes at xs4all.nl
Sun Jun 26 21:07:15 GMT 2005


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Dear Jeremy

Jeremy Allison schreef:

|On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:27:44PM +0200, beijnes at xs4all.nl wrote:
|
|>Problem:
|>when someone drags and drops a folder from one location to another
|>on a windows client, they get an error saying
|>
|>"this location does not support long filenames"
|>or
|>"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)
|>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.

Sorry, the error occurs at win XP PRO SP1 and XP PRO SP2 clients

Regards,
Marout

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