label of SAMBA volumes

mortee · Post by *mortee » 2003-10-17, 17:45 UTC

Hi!

I have a small server running SAMBA with two shares. The shares have properly set names, comments, and "volume" settings - TC nonetheless shows [???] instead of the label of the volumes. So, where does TC get the volume label of network shares from, and what I have to set on the SAMBA server so that TC shows the labels correctly?

Note that the server is powered by NetBSD, not Linux; I don't know if this has any impact on the issue sketched above.

mortee

oblomov · Post by *oblomov » 2003-10-17, 21:30 UTC

Does Windows see the shares correctly?

mortee · Post by *mortee » 2003-10-18, 19:06 UTC

Yes, Windows XP has no problem seeing the shares. Also, if I map them to drive letters, then the tooltip for the appropriate drive button in TC correctly shows the network path to the share (\\servername\sharename), but the label string to the left of the free/full space display shows just [???].

oblomov · Post by *oblomov » 2003-10-18, 21:44 UTC

Wild guess, but it might be something Unicode related. Chances are TC 6 will fix this.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2003-10-20, 10:05 UTC

I don't think that v6.0 will correct this, I'm still using the same Windows function to get the volume label.

2mortee
Try to give the shares English names (no accents). Does this work?

mortee · Post by *mortee » 2003-10-21, 16:38 UTC

The share names are absolutely of the english alphabet - we don't use accented file/folder/volume names at all (they are notorious of causing problems in windows...)

mortee

mortee · Post by *mortee » 2003-10-23, 08:51 UTC

I'm still using the same Windows function to get the volume label.

May I ask which is that Windows function?

mortee

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2003-10-24, 14:47 UTC

It's GetVolumeInformation() (ANSI version).