Samba <--> Windows Strange 8.3 conversion

Hello,

I run a Fedora Core 1 server with samba-3.0.2a-1 (installed via RPM). The
clients from this server are Win95, Win98 and NT4.0WS, and they all suffer
from the following problem:

When I do a dir in Win9x DOS (and dir /x on the NT box) i can see the short
8.3 names Samba makes for the long filenames, and the seem to be incorrect.

What I expect (and actually see on another Linux machine in a different
network with Samba 2.2.5) is this:

[First 5 chars of long filename] ~ [two seemingly random characters] .
[extension]

What is actually see on this network:

[Only the first char of the long filename] [bunch of garble, like 0fgtTe7s]
.. [extension]

How is this possible?
Filenames which are shorter than 8 chars work perfectly...
Is this a known bug?

Thanks in advance!

Jeroen Zwarts

Hi,

i'm sorry, i can't help about your problem.
But i would advice to try another newsgroup, which
is dedicated to samba:

comp.protocols.smb

HTH

Ralf

JeroenZzZ wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I run a Fedora Core 1 server with samba-3.0.2a-1 (installed via RPM). The
> clients from this server are Win95, Win98 and NT4.0WS, and they all suffer
> from the following problem:
>
> When I do a dir in Win9x DOS (and dir /x on the NT box) i can see the short
> 8.3 names Samba makes for the long filenames, and the seem to be incorrect.
>
> What I expect (and actually see on another Linux machine in a different
> network with Samba 2.2.5) is this:
>
> [First 5 chars of long filename] ~ [two seemingly random characters] .
> [extension]

Bad mangling.
Or possibly the wrong codepage.
Try adding "unix charset = iso-8859-15" and "unicode = yes" to smb.conf.

That's Western European with a Euro.

> What is actually see on this network:
>
> [Only the first char of the long filename] [bunch of garble, like 0fgtTe7s]
> . [extension]
>
> How is this possible?

All is possible in Samba.

Read the manual - first, because it is HUGE, and second, because it has
about a dozen options solely for this "issue".

You probably want the "mangle prefix", "mangle case", "mangled names"
and "mangled map" options.

While you're at it, also make sure
preserve case = yes
preserve short case = yes
are set, or else more breakage may ensue.

> Filenames which are shorter than 8 chars work perfectly...
> Is this a known bug?

Don't blaspheme. ;-)

Without Samba, I wouldn't be _using_ Linux - and I use 3 flavours.

--
Jeroen Geilman

Analog bits courtesy of adaptr.