samba - Nov 2001 - Shortened sharenames

Doing a little shell scripting with smbclient and noticed that

smbclient -N -L host

only displays the first 13 charachters of the sharename.

Since that is totally crippled feel like I must be missing something
obvious, but can't track it down. Any pointers on getting FULL sharenames
using smbclient?

Thanks for the help

- AZ

It doesn't seem to matter how long you make the share name. It only uses the
first 13 or so characters. How is this a problem? 
Joel
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:42:17PM -0800, August Zajonc
wrote:
> Doing a little shell scripting with smbclient and noticed that
> 
> smbclient -N -L host
> 
> only displays the first 13 charachters of the sharename.
> 
> Since that is totally crippled feel like I must be missing something
> obvious, but can't track it down. Any pointers on getting FULL
sharenames
> using smbclient?
> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> - AZ
> 
> 
> 
> 
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This from man smb.conf

Joel

 Although  the  configuration file permits service names to contain spaces,
your client soft-
       ware may not. Spaces will be ignored in comparisons anyway, so it
shouldn4t be a  problem  -
       but be aware of the possibility.

       On  a  similar  note,  many  clients - especially DOS clients - limit
service names to eight
       characters. Smbd has no such limitation, but attempts to connect from
such clients will fail
       if  they  truncate the service names.  For this reason you should
probably keep your service
       names down to eight characters in length.

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:42:17PM -0800, August Zajonc
wrote:
> Doing a little shell scripting with smbclient and noticed that
> 
> smbclient -N -L host
> 
> only displays the first 13 charachters of the sharename.
> 
> Since that is totally crippled feel like I must be missing something
> obvious, but can't track it down. Any pointers on getting FULL
sharenames
> using smbclient?
> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> - AZ
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Hi Guys,
As I recall, this issue is a limitation in clients that do not support
unicode.  Older windows clients also have this limitation - I don't think
smbclient has been modified to handle unicode at this time.  If you look
back
at some of the archives, I think this topic has been discussed in some
detail.
Hope this helps,
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel@HammersHome.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 10:57 PM
To: August Zajonc; samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Shortened sharenames


I poked around in the source code. (Which is about as intelligible as
Chinese to me.)
In client.c, there is a printf statement, which specifies printing only 15
characters at most. I changed it to print 30, but, smbclient still only
prints a 15 character share name, the rest is just padded blanks. I can't
figure out where the name is determined, likely in some other program, but,
who knows.  So, I am stumped.
Joel
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 07:12:31PM -0800, August Zajonc
wrote:
> This does not seem to be true. I of course tried connecting with the
> truncated share name and received the following response.
> 
> tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an invalid
share
> name)
> 
> I'll confess the defense of this silly 'feature' seems lacking
in good
> reasons. What is gained by the sharenames to 13 charachters? On the other
> hand I can think of a NUMBER of reasons why simply displaying the
sharename
> is the proper response without doing "fancy" things like
shortening it.
> 
> I've tried with -dA to see if I can get the rest of the share name to
no
> avail.
> 
> Thanks for your help, but I'm still unclear and why this doesn't
simply
> display the full share name and avoid this mess.
> 
> -AZ
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel@HammersHome.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 5:13 PM
> > To: August Zajonc; samba@lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: Shortened sharenames
> >
> >
> > It doesn't seem to matter how long you make the share name. It
> > only uses the
> > first 13 or so characters. How is this a problem?
> > Joel
> > On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:42:17PM -0800, August Zajonc wrote:
> > > Doing a little shell scripting with smbclient and noticed that
> > >
> > > smbclient -N -L host
> > >
> > > only displays the first 13 charachters of the sharename.
> > >
> > > Since that is totally crippled feel like I must be missing
something
> > > obvious, but can't track it down. Any pointers on getting
FULL
> > sharenames
> > > using smbclient?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help
> > >
> > > - AZ
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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