i face windows 95 access samba server with strange problem.

the file name all store in the samba server when access from the windows 95 client all are different from the original file name.

i manage to authenticate the samba. os i wondering is it the windows 95 limitation or something i need to configure from samba site?

thanks

Can you give an example of the Win95 and RH files names?

Is it something like Win95 file : "ThisWasTheFile.txt"
which changes to RH file : "ThisWas~.txt"

Are you really running Red Hat version 3??

yes i am running Redhat ES 3 with samba.

e.g. of the dir from windows 95

SSTL6Q~K TST 1,102 03-03-06 11:42a STP60NF06$H.tst
SVHNB1~V TST 1,102 03-03-06 11:42a STP40NF10$H.tst

other windows OS seem like fine to me. win XP, win 2000 all are alright...

Win95 is really a GUI on top of DOS. DOS used the FAT file system.
The FAT file system is only able to store file names in an 8.3 format. This means the file name was limited to 8 characters "." then 3 characters.

Win98 introduced FAT32, that allowed the use of long files names. NTFS also has this capability.

To allow users to have long files names, Win95 plays some tricks and matches the real file name to what the user expects. I not sure of all the details of how this was done.

I would expect that what you are seeing in the Samba machine is the real file name. I don't think there is much you can do about this, other than move the user to a later OS.

However I would also expect that the first 6 characters would be the same, and your examples don't show that. I think there was a way of listing the real file names from the command line of Win95. Try reading the help for the dir command.

Check it out and tell us what you find. I might be completely wrong!

yes i do agree with you on what u had mentioned. but i think is because of the case issue.

i already added 2 options under samba:
mangled names=yes
preserve case=yes

need to test out but i do not have win95 with me now. once has the result will post up here.