samba - Dec 2002 - Long Share Names and Windows NT Workstation 4.0

Hello,
Can anyone advise if there is a limit on the length of share names in Samba
when accessing via NT Workstation 4.0 clients? It seems that the limit is 12
characters for NT, our Windows 98, 2000 and XP machines work with longer
share names.
If so does anyone know if there is a patch to make long share names work
with NTWS 4.0?

Best regards,
Keith

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On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Grabham, Keith wrote:
> Hello, Can anyone advise if there is a limit on the length of share
> names in Samba when accessing via NT Workstation 4.0 clients? It seems
> that the limit is 12 characters for NT, our Windows 98, 2000 and XP
> machines work with longer share names. If so does anyone know if there
> is a patch to make long share names work with NTWS 4.0?
it's an nt4 bug when communicating with a non-unicode server.




cheers, jerry
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