[Samba] directory depth limit?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:06:33PM +0100, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> Samba 3.0.26a, Open Suse 10.3
> 
> Is there a directory depth limit either imposed by linux or by
> Windows or by Samba?
> 
> A collegues comes with a problem that he cannot create a file/directory
> with a certain nesting depth.

Yes, the limit in Samba 3.0.x is 1024 bytes (not characters, that
depends on the server encoding). This has been removed in Samba 3.2
(not yet out) - in 3.2 the restriction is only the underlying
MAX_PATH on the system Samba is running on.

Jeremy