RE: Share names should be 12 characters or less.

NetBIOS was orginally an IBM spec. Microsoft adopted it and then expanded it.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DrFranken
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:50 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Share names should be 12 characters or less.

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

On 1/3/2012 4:33 PM, Gqcy wrote:

I encountered this some time ago.

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...

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)





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?top
ic=/ifs/rzaaxntpath.htm

I think this is an unreasonable limitation and I will lobby for a
change but it is something to be aware of.

Rob Berendt

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