samba - Sep 2001 - samba share name lengths

I seem to recall that Windows NT/95/98 allow long (>32) names to be
visible as share names. However, samba seems to limit my share names to
13 characters in version 2.2.1a. If I create a share with a name longer
than that, it cannot be accessed. Am I missing something?

Thanks for your help.
Linus

it depends on the operating system you want to connect from.
win98 and nt are different.
from windows nt 4.0 you can only access to share-name with a max. length of
13 char.

i had the same problem and made the share name shorter.

"C. Linus Hicks" wrote:
> I seem to recall that Windows NT/95/98 allow long (>32) names to be
> visible as share names. However, samba seems to limit my share names to
> 13 characters in version 2.2.1a. If I create a share with a name longer
> than that, it cannot be accessed. Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Linus
>
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, philipp mayrhofer wrote:
> from windows nt 4.0 you can only access to share-name with a max. length of
> 13 char.
This is actually a WinNT 4 UNICODE bug.







cheers, jerry