[Samba] Re: Truncated username error?

Adam Huffman adam.huffman at manchester.ac.uk
Wed Sep 27 15:55:29 GMT 2006


On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> > Adam Huffman wrote:
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> >> I'm seeing an odd problem when a user here tries to
> >> edit images on a 3.0.10 Samba server running on a Centos
> >> 4.4 machine.
> >> 
> >> There is a "couldn't find service" error, but the
> >> username given is only seven characters instead of
> >> the eight required.
> > 
> > IS this from a Windows 2000 client ?  When I've looked
> > in the past this was a bug in the Win2k client which simply
> > retried with the correct name after the failure.
> 
> We see this too, from time-to-time with our (up-to-date) WindowsXP clients. 
> The erroneous username is ususally truncated by 1 character.
> 

No, it's an XP SP2 client.

It may actually be unconnected with this "save as" problem, but it is
logged at the same time.

Adam
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