samba - Mar 2003 - Shares with long names not accessible from winNT...

Hi All,

     I have the following section in my smb.conf file:
[Satish' Hindi Alltime Hits - Gems]
path                    = /mnt/d-drive/Music/Satish' Hindi Alltime Hits 
   Gems
browseable              = yes
public                  = yes
readonly                = yes
guest ok                = yes

I am able to browse this share through win2k but not from winNT.
But If I change the share name to [Satish] , basically a short name
I am able to browse it thru winnt as well. Is this expected behaviour?
Any workaround, solutions ?

Thanks in advance,
Satish/

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On Friday 21 March 2003 10:50, Satish K. Pagare wrote:
> I am able to browse this share through win2k but not from winNT.
> But If I change the share name to [Satish] , basically a short name
> I am able to browse it thru winnt as well. Is this expected behaviour?
Indeed it is. Try running testparm with a long sharename. it'll tell you
btw, can't you put the description into description, and not into the share 
name?
> Any workaround, solutions ?
See above.

HTH, Kai

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Satish K. Pagare wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>      I have the following section in my smb.conf file:
> [Satish' Hindi Alltime Hits - Gems]
> path                    = /mnt/d-drive/Music/Satish' Hindi Alltime Hits
>    Gems
> browseable              = yes
> public                  = yes
> readonly                = yes
> guest ok                = yes
> 
> I am able to browse this share through win2k but not from winNT.
> But If I change the share name to [Satish] , basically a short name
> I am able to browse it thru winnt as well. Is this expected behaviour?
> Any workaround, solutions ?
It's a bug in WinNT due to the fact that Samba 2.2 doesn't support 
UNICODE.  Samba 3.0 fixes this.





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