samba - Apr 2000 - Win98 command line vs. long filenames

I just cranked up Samba 2.0.6 on NetBSD-sun3 1.4. The clients are
Windows 98 (non-SE). I have had experience with earlier versions of Samba,
so I was able to get 2.0.6 up and running without great difficulty. I
exported a directory and was able to mount it on my Win98 machines fine.

   Using Explorer, everything looked like I expected it to: files were
listed with their full names and I was able to create files with long names.
However, when I popped up a command line, DIR did not show the long names
(the rightmost column, where they're normally displayed, is completely
empty) and I could not create files with long names -- the files were
created with truncated versions of the name.

   This symptom appears on three different Win98 machines, including two
which are set up to mount a drive from a Linux box running Samba 2.0.5a.
Those clients do not exhibit the problem when DIRing the share from the
Linux box!

   Obviously I have something set or compiled incorrectly, but I have been
unable to find anything in the documentation which seems related. Surely
somebody has seen this problem already and figured out what's going on?

   Thanks in advance.

   --James

>    I just cranked up Samba 2.0.6 on NetBSD-sun3 1.4. The clients are
> Windows 98 (non-SE). I have had experience with earlier versions of Samba,
> so I was able to get 2.0.6 up and running without great difficulty. I
> exported a directory and was able to mount it on my Win98 machines fine.
> 
>    Using Explorer, everything looked like I expected it to: files were
> listed with their full names and I was able to create files with long
names.
> However, when I popped up a command line, DIR did not show the long names
Setting an 'fstype' parameter (other than 'NTFS') in smb.conf
can cause this. :(

I didn't have any fstype parameter, but I tried adding
"fstype=NTFS".
No effect.

   I have tried all 32 possible permutations of mange case/case sensitive/
default case/preserve case/short preserve case. Most of the permutations
were much worse, and none of them caused long filenames to show up in a
DIR.

   Maybe I'll try 2.0.7 and see if that's any better, or drop back to
2.0.5a,
since that seems to work on Linux.

   --James

Oops, sorry Tulipant, this should have gone to the original poster...

We have a similar setup with 2.0.6 and have no trouble viewing long file
names by either mapping the share to a drive or directrly doing a dir on it;
i.e.:

E:\>net use f: \\svr-popup\shared
The command was completed successfully.

E:\>dir f:

 Volume in drive F is SHARED
 Directory of F:\

NEWLI~AX EXE     3,542,528  04-18-00  6:06a NewlixPopup.exe
ReadMe   txt           292  04-10-00 10:26a ReadMe.txt
         2 file(s)      3,542,820 bytes
         0 dir(s)        7,771.50 MB free
E:\>dir \\svr-popup\shared
 Directory of \\svr-popup\shared

NEWLI~AX EXE     3,542,528  04-18-00  6:06a NewlixPopup.exe
ReadMe   txt           292  04-10-00 10:26a ReadMe.txt
         2 file(s)      3,542,820 bytes
         0 dir(s)
E:\>

Here are the relevant parts of the smb.conf file:

[global]
	printing = bsd
	guest account = netbios
	server string = Newlix Corporation's OfficeServer v1.5.0-50
	socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
	unix password sync = yes
	update encrypted = yes
	passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
	passwd chat = *new*pass* %n\n *new*pass* %n\n *change*
	encrypt passwords = yes
	name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host
	username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/users.map
	printer driver file = /usr/local/samba/lib/printers.def
	printer driver location = \\%h\PRINTER$
	netbios name = SVR-POPUP
	preserve case = yes
	security = share
	wins proxy = yes
	dns proxy = yes
	wins support = no
	domain master = no
	preferred master = no
	local master = no
	os level = 5
	workgroup = NEWLIX
	remote announce = 192.168.3.255 192.168.5.255 192.168.1.255
	remote browse sync = 192.168.3.255 192.168.5.255 192.168.1.255
	wins server = 192.168.3.1
[shared]
	comment = Shared file space for all users
	path = /USERSPACE/shared
	public = yes
	writable = yes
	force create mode = 0775
	force directory mode = 0775


Jean-Serge Gagnon - Applications Director
Newlix Corporation - jsg@newlix.com
(613) 225-0516 fax: (613) 225-5625

-----Original Message-----
From: Tulipant Gergely [mailto:tulipant-gergely@dbrt.hu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:57 AM
To: Jean-Serge Gagnon
Subject: RE: Win98 command line vs. long filenames


> Have you looked at the "case" options such as "preserve
case", "short
> preserve case" and "default case"?
Yeah, I set them like this:
   preserve case = no
   short preserve case = no


Why do you ask? :)