Hello. I am rather new at linux/samba and I need someones help.

Is there a built-in maximum of path length in Samba? When testing on 2.2.5 as well as 3.0 rc4 the file gets cropped when the filename + path is greater than 255 characters... Unfortunately Samba crops the filename from the suffix and forward thus removing the file type...

There must surely be a way to increase whatever static variable that is configuring this, or is there a fix for this out there?

The computer runs on Redhat 8 and currently Samba 3.0.0.rc4.

Any help is most wanted as it's driving my mildly insane...

/cdxz

Are you browsing the directories from the x-win utility that comes with Redhat (sorry, can't remember it's name... "network servers" or something???). That doesn't seem to like longer the filenames, especially if they involve spaces...

No, from Windows Explorer... do not use x-win...

Well... guess noone has an answer to this question....

Thanks anyway!

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