I'm running Samba 3.0.21c; I keep upgrading because I keep hoping the default file naming behavior will change but I've had the same problem since 2.something and it hasn't changed, so I have to assume I'm doing something wrong. Feel free to laugh at me derisively if this is somewhere in the docs and I just haven't found it.
On a Winduhs server, long file names are truncated to DOS 8.3 style by taking the first six letters (without spaces) of the original name and adding ~ followed by some number, so I can change to \My Documents with the command CD \MYDOCU~1 and so forth. Samba isn't doing that. It makes up some totally random collection of unrelated letters when I store long file names to the Samba shares. The same thing happens regardless of whether I save the file from the Linux console or across the LAN from a Winduhs workstation; the same thing happens whether the file is saved to my FAT32 formatted share or my ext3 share. Is there some configuration option I'm missing in smb.conf? I used to think I know what I'm doing, but now I realize I'm just as clueless as I was when I started using Linux 7 years ago. -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
