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long filenames
Name: sle1010 Date: May 5, 2005 at 01:39:55 Pacific OS: fedora 3 CPU/Ram: 512mb
Comment:
I've upgraded from redhat 9 to fedora 3. I'm trying for the first time to share documents using samba. Now when I view a directory thats on the machine on a windows pc I cannot get longfile names. Any help would be great.
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