On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:51:20PM -0700, Shawn Wright wrote: > We have a few applications which are still 16bit (running on > Win2k clients), and since moving some user data from NT4 to > Samba, users have encountered the unpredictable filename > mangling issue, where "New Folder" appears as " > NUJRHW~7". Users use 8.3 filenames when working in these > programs, but often have folders with long filenames that are > now unrecognizable. > > Is there any workaround for this, aside from renaming all the > folders?
You can use the old name-mangling scheme by setting : "mangling method = hash" (the default is hash2). This uses more characters of the original filename at the expense of greater name collision problems. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba