samba - Aug 2004 - Issue with old style dos truncation

Hi there.

Recently upgraded from 2.2.9 to 3.05 everything is working great except for
one small snag.

I noticed it when working on the unattended Win2k installation, when it was
copying a more than 8 Character Folder.

Normally and certainly on 2.2.9 it would truncate the file name say from
DellDrivers to DellDr~1 and would still work.

However, it was truncating the file name to D1DRER~B (or similar, cant
rightly remember)

I thought it odd, but simply renamed the folder to be less than 8 chars and
it worked there on in.

I now have a similar issue, but in windows. It's a piece of software called
StudyScan, and its used for diagnosing students with Dyslexia. All was
working fine on 2.2.9, but when you run the software it complains it cannot
find the licence file, you then try and tell it to browse for the file and
its gets all the way to where the directory should be but instead of a
studyscan folder I get a "S1STSC~B" Folder.

Now the window itself looks like an old style win311 window, so im assuming
its has some sort of dos issues with the 8 character's, but in windows and
in a command prompt under 2k it looks as it should i.e StudyScan. So why is
samba truncating it to be "S1STSC~B" instead of "STUDYS~1" ?

Any help gratefully received

Ross McInnes

(Sorry for resend, 1 sent via wrong account 2 time on the sendmail server
was set to GMT-14 ?! And was saying I sent it yesterday....)

Hi there.

Recently upgraded from 2.2.9 to 3.05 everything is working great except for
one small snag.

I noticed it when working on the unattended Win2k installation, when it was
copying a more than 8 Character Folder.

Normally and certainly on 2.2.9 it would truncate the file name say from
DellDrivers to DellDr~1 and would still work.

However, it was truncating the file name to D1DRER~B (or similar, cant
rightly remember)

I thought it odd, but simply renamed the folder to be less than 8 chars and
it worked there on in.

I now have a similar issue, but in windows. It's a piece of software called
StudyScan, and its used for diagnosing students with Dyslexia. All was
working fine on 2.2.9, but when you run the software it complains it cannot
find the licence file, you then try and tell it to browse for the file and
its gets all the way to where the directory should be but instead of a
studyscan folder I get a "S1STSC~B" Folder.

Now the window itself looks like an old style win311 window, so im assuming
its has some sort of dos issues with the 8 character's, but in windows and
in a command prompt under 2k it looks as it should i.e StudyScan. So why is
samba truncating it to be "S1STSC~B" instead of "STUDYS~1" ?

Any help gratefully received

Ross McInnes

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