On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:48:06PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:10:12PM +0100, Frank Joerdens wrote: > > Hello, > > > > this would be one of the freakiest problems I've ever seen: If I open an > > e.g. JPEG or Quicktime Movie with the Quicktime player application from > > a share, it won't work if the file is inside a folder that has a name > > which is longer than 12 characters. If I open the same file with e.g. > > the Internet Explorer, no problem. If I put the folder on a local disk > > or another Windows computer on the network (!), no problem either. > > > > I was able to reproduce the problem with both Samba 2.0.6 and 2.2.4. > > > > Any ideas? Could someone check if they have the same problem (it might > > be somthing I've configured identically on both Linux boxes). > > Can you test on 2.2.6 please ? I fixed a long standing bug with > name mangling for folders for 2.2.6.
Cool. 2.2.6 indeed does not have the problem. This is why I am addicted to Open Source software: You report your problem to the list, one of the developers writes back with the solution within, like, 20 minutes - and your problem is gone! Many thanks, Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
