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...hare names longer than 12 characters. The problem is this: using smbclient -L, the shares are just not listed. It's also impossible to connect to them. Using MacOS X, 10.3, panther as they call it. Microsoft has even written an article about this problem, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q145949/ for that. Now, it was fixed somewhere in the samba 2 series I've found in the mailing list archives, but it seems the same problem is still there with this smbclient on Mac Os X 10.3 (panther), which reports as version 3.0.2. The question is: could it be that the bug has been reintroduced so...

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

Hello: I have a brother HL-1440 laser printer set-up and working fine on my RedHat 7.3 Linux box. The printer queue is named brotherLaser. I added a samba share for the printer with these options in my smb.conf file: [brotherLaser] path = /var/spool/lpd/brotherLaser writable = yes comment = Brother Laser Printer printable = yes public = yes I then went