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 ??????? (<b>also: äöüÄÖÜß</b>). 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