samba - Oct 2002 - bizarre issue with opening Quicktime files from a share

Hello,

this would be one of the freakiest problems I've ever seen: If I open an
e.g. JPEG or Quicktime Movie with the Quicktime player application from
a share, it won't work if the file is inside a folder that has a name
which is longer than 12 characters. If I open the same file with e.g.
the Internet Explorer, no problem. If I put the folder on a local disk
or another Windows computer on the network (!), no problem either. 

I was able to reproduce the problem with both Samba 2.0.6 and 2.2.4.

Any ideas? Could someone check if they have the same problem (it might
be somthing I've configured identically on both Linux boxes).

Cheers, Frank

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:10:12PM +0100, Frank Joerdens
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this would be one of the freakiest problems I've ever seen: If I open
an
> e.g. JPEG or Quicktime Movie with the Quicktime player application from
> a share, it won't work if the file is inside a folder that has a name
> which is longer than 12 characters. If I open the same file with e.g.
> the Internet Explorer, no problem. If I put the folder on a local disk
> or another Windows computer on the network (!), no problem either. 
> 
> I was able to reproduce the problem with both Samba 2.0.6 and 2.2.4.
> 
> Any ideas? Could someone check if they have the same problem (it might
> be somthing I've configured identically on both Linux boxes).
Can you test on 2.2.6 please ? I fixed a long standing bug with
name mangling for folders for 2.2.6.

Jeremy.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:48:06PM +0000, jra@dp.samba.org wrote:
[ . . . ]
> Can you test on 2.2.6 please ? I fixed a long standing bug with
> name mangling for folders for 2.2.6.
A problem remains: If the folder with the name > 12 characters is not at
the base of the share, but inside another folder with a name > 12
characters, it still does not work.

Regards, Frank

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 02:35:55PM +0100, Frank Joerdens
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:48:06PM +0000, jra@dp.samba.org wrote:
> [ . . . ]
> > Can you test on 2.2.6 please ? I fixed a long standing bug with
> > name mangling for folders for 2.2.6.
> 
> A problem remains: If the folder with the name > 12 characters is not at
> the base of the share, but inside another folder with a name > 12
> characters, it still does not work.
Can you give me the exact details to reproduce please.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.