Fuan Tsai  (ft11@cornell.edu) wrote:

>This may be some what off the original topic, but since you mentioned Samba
>it reminds me something...
>
>I successfully built Samba-2.0.6 from pkgsrc, but the long filename works
>one-wany only. When our users (on NT, 95/98) tried to write files with long
>filenames to the Samba server, they got a message saying "The destination
>doesn't support long filename" and asked them to convert to 8.3. Copying
>files from Samba to Win machines works fine, though. The same smb.conf
>works fine on a IRIX 6.5.x machine (running Samba 1.9.x), so I don't think
>this is a configuration problem. Am I missing something on the NetBSD side?
>Or the mac68k port doesn't support long filename?

No, I think this is a bug in Samba.  I turned on logging and sent the 
results to the Samba folks and the basic response I got was, "we don't 
have any NetBSD systems, don't use Macs, and don't see the problen on 
Solaris.  Please send us the fixes if you find the error and have a 
solution."

-bob