[Samba] Problem with length of share names

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Sat May 7 16:52:42 GMT 2005


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David Harrison wrote:

| I'm wondering if there is some restriction on the
| length of share names  that prevents shares with
| names over 12 characters being browsed to ?
....
| Is this actually a limitation ? a bug in my config ?
| a known bug ?

The NetShareEnum RAP call only returns share name of
12 characters or less.  This would affect smbclient
which is what I'm assuming you are referring asking
about.  This would also affect Windows 9x clients.



cheers, jerry
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