Messages in this thread |  | | From | Lindsay Haisley <> | Subject | SMB filesystem imbalance | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:44:55 -0500 (CDT) |
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It might be more appropriate to post this to one of the Samba forums, however it apparently involves SBM filesystem support in the Linux kernel.
After mounting (using smbmount) one of my remote Win 95 drives on either of my Linux systems I can only read short filenames from the remote drive (e.g. longfi~1.txt instead of longfilename.txt). This is true for any operation which reads files or filenames from the W95 system (ls, cp, etc.). Writing files to the remote system works correctly, however. Copying longfilename.txt from a Linux box to a Win 95 system results in the appropriate long filename on the latter (as seen in Win 95) however the name is still truncated to longfi~1.txt in the Linux listing and in a copy back.
I have smb support loaded as a module. vfat.o is also a module, however loading it appears to make no difference to this problem. I use samba (loaded out of my startup files) to give access from Linux drives to my Win 95 machines under which long filenames work correctly both on reading and writing, as seen from the Win 95 end.
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