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from: Chris Robinson
date: 2003-04-30 16:40:24
subject: Re: Win98 viewing long share name shares

From: Chris Robinson 

I forgot to add:

Typing in the share name to a run dialog or mapping a drive to it works
fine.  Also, there are no comments on the shares (long comments can cause
this problem in 95/98).

Cheers,
Chris.

Chris Robinson wrote:

> I have some shares on one of our servers that are over 17 characters
> long.  I know this would've been a problem if I was trying to view them
> from DOS or Windows for Workgroups but 98SE seems to have a problem
> seeing them too (NT, Win2k have no problems).  Does the long sharename
> thing extend to Windows98 or is this someting else?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.

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