On 03.10.2013 16:17, Kevin Field wrote:
Have an ancient (1995!) piece of software that uses 8.3 filename format. After the switch, long filenames became useless in the context of the File->Open dialog box. Instead of the first few characters, we get maybe 1 character the same if we're lucky, which in a directory of thousands makes it impossible to find. For example, instead of "S:\Air conditioning control system" becoming "S:\AIRCON~1" like it would before, it's displayed in this program as "S:\A51FHG~S".
In Samba3 this could be changed by increasing the value "mangle prefix". This works only if mangling method is changed to hash2. I don't know how one can lookup if this still works in samba 4. Most documentation seems to be completely unaware that samba 4 is out. But beware that I got duplicate filenames after changing this value. Windows prevents duplicates, Samba does not. hope this helps, Klaus
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