samba - Jan 2006 - Samba - getting long share names from Netapp

We defined a share, sales_cifs_test, on our NetApp server. Note that the
length of the name is longer than 13 characters. 

We can see the share with Microsoft Explorer.

We can mount the share from Linux using smbmount.

What we want to do is to get a list of shares from NetApp. The tools
that can do this are the samba programs smbclient and net. 

  Smbclient will not show names longer than 13 characters.

  The following command gives a share list, but again, does not include
names longer than 13 characters.

  net  net -W YOURDOMAIN --user='user%password' -w YOURDOMAIN -S
NETAPP_SERVER_IP rap share

 The command 
 net  net -W YOURDOMAIN --user='user%password' -w YOURDOMAIN -S
NETAPP_SERVER_IP rpc share

 is the samba command that gives a list of shares, even if they have
long names. The problem is that we can't get it to access NetApp
successfully.

We have searched both the Netapp site and the Samba site and can't find
anything that is relevant.

We would really appreciate an answer as to why the command is failing.


Peter

Hi Peter,

If you create a share >12 chars long testparm gives you this message:

WARNING: You have some share names that are longer than 12 characters.
These may not be accessible to some older clients.

So I imagine that in the past this hasn't worked at all.  It is strange
though that smbclient would ignore the name entirely without even
printing some of it (at least this is what happens in 3.0.21rc2.)

For me though the 'net' command worked, I ran:

  $ net -S server -U username rpc share

And providing 'username' was a member of the domain it gave me a list of
shares, including those longer than 12 characters (however this may be
because I was connecting to a Samba machine that had joined the domain.)

Cheers,
Adam.