From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 02:17:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6FF416A4BF for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:17:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6861F43FBD for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:17:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sebastian.ssmoller@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 2184 invoked by uid 65534); 13 Sep 2003 09:16:58 -0000 Received: from pD9E81DBB.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [217.232.29.187]) (217.232.29.187) by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 13 Sep 2003 11:16:58 +0200 From: sebastian ssmoller To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030913070011.62055.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030913070011.62055.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1063444977.846.9.camel@tyrael.linnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 13 Sep 2003 11:22:57 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: smbmount problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:17:02 -0000 hi, i am running fbsd 5.1. when i try to mount a samba share on a debian system i get : smbfs: server name "x.y" too long the server name is 16 chars long and i found out (looking at the sources) that there is a limit of 15. my question: why is there such a limit? (i used this share from several linux distros without any problem). does this mean i have to change the hostname of the debian system (which could not be really a solution...) or is there any other workaround ? thx for ur help seb