Re: Sharing a directory with Samba and Netatalk


Subject: Re: Sharing a directory with Samba and Netatalk
From: morganew@mac.com
Date: Sun Sep 30 2001 - 00:33:41 EDT


I think you have to keep the names short. If you want you can write a
short shell script with sed to truncate all of the filenames and still
leave the .xxx at the end.

Morgan

On Saturday, September 29, 2001, at 05:28 PM, Tim Wright wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running 1.5pre6 under Mandrake, and sharing a directory with
> netatalk
> and samba. The problem is that when files/directories are created which
> are
> over 31 characters long, the macs can't see them at all!
>
> Is there any way to get netatalk to provide a truncated version of the
> filename to the clients, or do we just have to make sure the filenames
> aren't too long?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
>



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