1) HP-UX compiler 2) NT cannot access longer than 12 chars shares 3) Patches 4) Samba 2.2.0 + Win2K SP 2 or WinXP 5) What is samba-bugs@samba.org ? 6) swat not working with 2.2.1a ---------------------------------------- 1) HP-UX compiler On HPUX you must use gcc or the HP Ansi compiler. The free compiler that comes with HP-UX is not Ansi compliant and cannot compile Samba. ---------------------------------------- 2) NT cannot access longer than 12 chars shares It is a known problem with NT clients. Currently Microsoft support 2 formats to send strings over the wire: ascii and unicode. Samba uses Ascii while NT and 2000 uses unicode by default now. It seem that NT think the ascii-speaking servers are not able to support longer than 12 chars sharenames and it simply truncate any sharename to 12 chars when it try to access the share. The HEAD branch of samba has been converted to speak unicode on the wire and this way NT have no problems. ---------------------------------------- 3) Patches you should send patches to samba-patches@samba.org see http://www.samba.org/samba-patches for more details. ---------------------------------------- 4) Samba 2.2.0 + Win2K SP 2 or WinXP With Service Pack 2 Microsoft have added some new RPC calls and uses them to join the domain, the same RPC calls are found on Windows XP Beta release. Samba 2.2.0 does not have this new set of RPC calls and this make problems to Win2000-sp2 and winXP. Samba Team have yet fixed this bug in CVS tree and it will be solved in samba-2.2.1 for both Win2000-sp2 and WindowsXP ---------------------------------------- 5) What is samba-bugs@samba.org ? samba-bugs@samba.org is meant to report discovered and well defined, reproducible bugs. to submit a good bug report following info should be provided: - samba version - server os version - client version - how to reproduce the bug - smb.conf if matter - logs or a trace that show the problem if matter samba-bugs@samba.org should not be used to ask for help, or information. please use samba@samba.org mailing list for help/info requests. ---------------------------------------- 6) swat not working with 2.2.1a Swat will not work under some circumstancies in samba 2.2.1a. We already found and fixed the bug. It is currently fixed in CVS and the fix will be in next release too.