On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:17:18AM -0400, Kevin Field wrote: > Hi, > > I'm cross-posting here from serverfault.com in case anyone can help. > I just found a similar question on askubuntu.com also without an > answer. > > Switched recently from W2K3 to Samba4.0.9/CentOS6.4 for our > fileshare for WinXP clients. > > 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 our directory of client identifiers with their contact names > appended, formerly directory mangling would leave enough characters > intact that client identifiers could still be used. Not anymore. > > None of the settings in the docs seem to talk about this exact > problem. In fact, they seem to show it the way we were used to. Our > smb.conf doesn't use any of the settings because the defaults seem > to be what we want, according to the docs. Any hints?
This is the mangling method that changed to hash2 (gives better protection against duplicates). Use the smb.conf parameter "mangling method = hash" to change it back to the way it used to be. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
