[Samba] Filenames apparently truncated when acessing Samba share from XP.

[John H Terpstra]

Richard,

Best advice is to update to Samba-3.0.11. If my memory is not missing too many 
bits the name trucation problem was a bug in 3.0.1 with certain clients. If 
the problem persists with 3.0.11 please file a bug report on 
https://bugzilla.samba.org.

- John T.

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 09:39, Richard Heggs wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> This one is puzzling me.  I suspect it is largely due to a badly-behaved
> installer, but I would appreciate any help.  I'm so puzzled, I'm not even
> sure how to explain the problem, but here goes...
>
> I have a Samba 3.0.1 system on AIX 5.2, which a number of XP users connect
> to, in order to access an application installed there.  The upgrade
> installer for said application is causing me trouble.
>
> The installer gets almost all the way through the process, unpacking files
> and so on.  The problem occurs when it tries to run one of those files.
>
> I can see this directory in My Computer, and using the DIR command in a dos
> box:
> G:\uniform7\hometest\installation
>
> Ths installer is complaining that it cannot access
> G:\uniform7\hometest\installation\definitions-SDE.bat
> (which is definitely there)
>
> Upon inspection I notice that when I use the 'ls' command from XP, I see
> that all the files have been truncated (not mangled - I turned that off) to
> 8 characters.
>
> I've tried with mangling turned on, and I get a slightly different error,
> in that the file which the installer cannot find is mangled.
>
> I suspect that the problem is that the installer is using an odd method of
> file access, and is for some reason seeing the directory structure as XP's
> 'ls' does, rather than as XP's file explorer does.
>
> Does anyone have any idea how I can make XP's 'ls' dispplay the full and
> unmangled filename?
>
> The share for this directory is:
> [uniform]
>    comment = Uniform
>    path = /uniform05
>    read only = no
>    public = yes
>    case sensitive = no
>    preserve case = yes
>    short preserve case = yes
>    mangle case = no
>    mangled names= no
>
> All suggestions gratefully received, I'm at a loss.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
>
>
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