I'm on 7.1, and I've never had any luck getting long share names to work. I just have our Windows team create additional shares with shorter names.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 8:17 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: QNTC having long share names
Does QNTC still have the issue where accessing a system with long share names can have sporadic results?
For example, if I attach to a Windows server with something like /qntc/myserver/myshare
But myserver also has these shares:
- I love big names and for this I cannot lie
- once upon a time in a galaxy far away
- when I was there I wanted to be here but now that Im here I want to be there then simply accessing /qntc/myserver/myshare can work sometimes and other times not.
Notes:
... the share name can be up to 12 characters long...
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1016037
The share name can be up to 12 characters long.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/ifs/rzaaxntpath.htm
Ensure that all Windows based shares are 12 characters or less in length.
This is a permanent restriction as it causes the Windows server to return
a 3406 error code from the SMB transaction.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1018146
I've got one server where 12 of the shares have the first 25 characters of
their share names in common.
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
