samba - Jan 2011 - Share name length limit?

I just upgraded an HP-UX 11.23 IA 64 server to Samba 3.5.6, and one of
the shares would not work. It showed up in testparm as valid, but nobody
could connect to it. I shortened the length of the share name from 12 to
8 characters, and it now works. 

My pc is running Vista, and authentication is via our domain
controllers.

Is this a limit within Samba, or is it something being imposed by
Windows?

Stan

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:25:17AM -0500, Stan.Pietkiewicz at statcan.gc.ca
wrote:
> I just upgraded an HP-UX 11.23 IA 64 server to Samba 3.5.6, and one of
> the shares would not work. It showed up in testparm as valid, but nobody
> could connect to it. I shortened the length of the share name from 12 to
> 8 characters, and it now works. 
> 
> My pc is running Vista, and authentication is via our domain
> controllers.
> 
> Is this a limit within Samba, or is it something being imposed by
> Windows?
We don't have such a limit in Samba. We'd need a network
trace and a debug level 10 of smbd to see what's going
wrong. Along with your smb.conf file before and after your
change. For info how to create network traces see
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Capture_Packets

With best regards,

Volker Lendecke

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