hello. we've the old samba-documentation of john d. blair and we use samba 1.9.18p8. the exported volumes for our windows-clients are the same as we export with ethershare. our problem now: the ethershare (helios) can't handle filenames with more than 32 characters and charakters like ???????. can we set parameters for excluding these charakters and not allowing more than 32? now we have problems with building the desktop (for mac-filesystem) and with our backup. is there anyone who can help us! karg th. mailto:dasprinzip@gmx.net kaltnermedia gmbh dr.-zoller-st. 1 86399 bobingen germany visit us: http://www.kaltnermedia.de