On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 13:07 +0100, Dominic Raferd wrote: > From a windows client it is easy and fast to obtain from a samba share > both the long filenames and the short 8.3 names by using DIR /x. Is > there a way for a Linux client to obtain this same information swiftly > for a large directory listing - or indeed for the samba server to show > this information? The only way I have found is using smbclient's altname > function but I seem to have to call this individually for each file, > which makes it very slow. > > [In case you are wondering why anyone should want this info, it is to do > with an old DOS program which accesses a samba share.]
You can script smbclient using '-c' -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
