Re: Share names should be 12 characters or less.

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, I didn't know Microsoft had COBOL programmers.   :-)

On 1/3/2012 4:33 PM, Gqcy wrote:
> I encountered this some time ago.
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> The explanation I received at the time was that the NetBIOS (SAMBA)
> _standard_ was limited to 12 for a share name.
> of course, Microsoft broke their own rule shortly after it was made...
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> What I have asked IBM for is to allow DFS namespace data to be read and
> find shares using that... (it was in windows server 2003)
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> On 1/3/2012 3:06 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I am seeing documentation for multiple IBM platforms (i and z) that share
> > names they serve, or consume, should be 12 characters or less.  We are
> > seeing sporadic errors with QNTC and IBM is attributing it to this.  For
> > example, one of our Windows servers has numerous shares.  But if I do
> > WRKLNK '/QNTC/GDSNT/*'
> > I only see the share names 12 characters or less.  Embedded spaces are not
> > a problem.
> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp?topic=/ifs/rzaaxntpath.htm
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> > I think this is an unreasonable limitation and I will lobby for a change
> > but it is something to be aware of.
> >
> > Rob Berendt