Re: [Samba] name mangling makes 8.3 unreadable unlike Windows fileserver

2013-10-04 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
On 04.10.2013 01:14, Kevin Field wrote: The minimum value is 1 and the maximum value is 6. mangle prefix is effective only when mangling method is hash2. This does exactly what we want! Be warned that this will produce duplicate filenames. Windows prevents duplicates, Samba does not. -- To

Re: [Samba] name mangling makes 8.3 unreadable unlike Windows fileserver

2013-10-04 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 08:34:24AM +0200, Klaus Hartnegg wrote: On 04.10.2013 01:14, Kevin Field wrote: The minimum value is 1 and the maximum value is 6. mangle prefix is effective only when mangling method is hash2. This does exactly what we want! Be warned that this will produce

[Samba] name mangling makes 8.3 unreadable unlike Windows fileserver

2013-10-03 Thread Kevin Field
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

Re: [Samba] name mangling makes 8.3 unreadable unlike Windows fileserver

2013-10-03 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
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,

Re: [Samba] name mangling makes 8.3 unreadable unlike Windows fileserver

2013-10-03 Thread Jeremy Allison
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

Re: [Samba] name mangling makes 8.3 unreadable unlike Windows fileserver

2013-10-03 Thread Kevin Field
On 2013-10-03 2:38 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote: 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

Re: [Samba] name mangling makes 8.3 unreadable unlike Windows fileserver

2013-10-03 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 07:14:35PM -0400, Kevin Field wrote: Thanks Jeremy! I'm not sure how I missed that in the docs. Anyway, it is much, much better than before, but still not exactly like Windows. For example, we have two folders beginning with C-FZP. We're never going to give the