[Samba] 8.3 short names question

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Feb 27 13:30:23 GMT 2007


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Dave Abouav wrote:

> Any idea why the 8.3 names are so weird? Is this typical 
> for Samba now?

It is by design.    You might want to look at the
mangling method option in smb.conf(5).





cheers, jerry
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