From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 13:27:15 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 BB8F416A4BF for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.mnet.bg (home.mnet.bg [193.110.223.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D3BA43FBF for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpenev@mnet.bg) Received: from localhost (home [127.0.0.1]) by home.mnet.bg (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242E33B33A; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:27:10 +0300 (EEST) Received: from home.mnet.bg ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (home [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09341-01-3; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:27:09 +0300 (EEST) Received: from mail.mnet.bg (armadillo [127.0.0.1]) by home.mnet.bg (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E1863B357; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:24:24 +0300 (EEST) Received: from 193.110.220.81 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dpenev) by mail.mnet.bg with HTTP; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:24:24 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3521.193.110.220.81.1063484664.squirrel@mail.mnet.bg> In-Reply-To: <1063469519.749.13.camel@tyrael.linnet> References: <20030913070011.62055.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> <1063444977.846.9.camel@tyrael.linnet> <20030913130426.GA1771@earth.dpsca.bg> <1063469519.749.13.camel@tyrael.linnet> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:24:24 +0300 (EEST) From: "Dancho Penev" To: "sebastian ssmoller" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616 at mnet.bg cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 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 20:27:15 -0000 > On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 15:04, Dancho Penev wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:22:57AM +0200, sebastian ssmoller wrote: >> >From: sebastian ssmoller >> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >Date: 13 Sep 2003 11:22:57 +0200 >> >Subject: smbmount problem >> > >> >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 >> >> In Windows world computer's NetBIOS names are limited to 15 bytes, >> so I suppose that the author of mount_smbfs is conform with that. >> >> >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...) >> >> No, just use "netbios name" option in smb.conf, and attend name to be >> no more than 15 chars long. > > i tried that but i found out that the netbios name in the smb.conf > (client and server) is already shorter than 15 chars. > the problem seems to be that the full qualified name hostname.domain (as > used in the mount command line and as returned by the nameserver) is > longer than 15 chars. but this should be ok, shouldn't it ? Yes, this isn't problem. What command you use to mount the share? > > any ideas ? > > thx > seb >> >> >or is there any other workaround ? >> > >> >thx for ur help >> >seb >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --- Dancho Penev