Hello everyone, I was trying to rename a newlys created share for a customer site over the weekend. I was trying to give it MedTranBackup but that would only yield an error on the NT4 workstation about the network name not found and could not browse to it via network neighborhood. When I use MedTran everything was happy. I appear to have hit a limit in the length of the name. What is the max length limit on a share name? BTW, I did verify the logon scripts had the correct syntax and restarted samba after changing the names. thanks -- Guy Story, KC5GOI Itel-Tigerbyte LLC gstory@tigerbyte.com 940.891.4575
Keep them below 12 char's. That's a Windows limitation, not Samba's. Win9x clients can't see share names >12 char's. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q145949& http://www.acu.edu/computing/infotech/cns/Nbnaming.html Jim> -----Original Message----- > From: Guy Story, KC5GOI [mailto:kc5goi@kc5goi.net] > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 9:17 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] share name size limitation? > > > Hello everyone, I was trying to rename a newlys created > share for a customer > site over the weekend. I was trying to give it MedTranBackup > but that would > only yield an error on the NT4 workstation about the network > name not found > and could not browse to it via network neighborhood. When I > use MedTran > everything was happy. I appear to have hit a limit in the > length of the > name. What is the max length limit on a share name? BTW, I > did verify the > logon scripts had the correct syntax and restarted samba > after changing the > names. > > thanks > > -- > Guy Story, KC5GOI > Itel-Tigerbyte LLC > gstory@tigerbyte.com > 940.891.4575 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Guy Story, KC5GOI wrote:> Hello everyone, I was trying to rename a newlys created share for a customer > site over the weekend. I was trying to give it MedTranBackup but that would > only yield an error on the NT4 workstation about the network name not found > and could not browse to it via network neighborhood. When I use MedTran > everything was happy. I appear to have hit a limit in the length of the > name. What is the max length limit on a share name? BTW, I did verify the > logon scripts had the correct syntax and restarted samba after changing the > names.There's a unicode bug in NT4 that limits the share name on non-unicode servers (e.g. Samba 2.2) to 12 characters. cheers,jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--