Can a file name be too long

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I currently have a samba setup and we are dumping from webservers generated file names. Dureing a telnet session we cannot see some of the files that have really long names... but we can see them fine from NT...

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Samba has specific switches to configure for long file names, etc. Might help to look into this, if you have not done so already.

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