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| author | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 2002-10-21 04:30:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 2002-10-21 04:30:51 +0000 |
| commit | 48a56c12e268845d037ea0c4115a0df37cb20e26 (patch) | |
| tree | 11af590e40cc94c973f3fca104ef9ddab0a6bbbb /docs | |
| parent | 354878f76fb6689e26a62ef988564c099991edc0 (diff) | |
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add a 'mangle prefix' option to allow people to tune the number of
characters used in the prefix for 8.3 names in the hash2
algorithm. The longer the prefix the more readable the 8.3 names will
be, but the weaker the hash.
this was added because of someone complaining that the new hashing
algorithm was unreadable but the old one was broken :)
(This used to be commit 3ca3cc838e5b957c7244b21947daddc4ee4c3099)
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/docbook/manpages/smb.conf.5.sgml | 19 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/docbook/manpages/smb.conf.5.sgml b/docs/docbook/manpages/smb.conf.5.sgml index 0e03eabd03..a1f767185c 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/manpages/smb.conf.5.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/manpages/smb.conf.5.sgml @@ -4292,10 +4292,21 @@ a better algorithm (generates less collisions) in the names. However, many Win32 applications store the mangled names and so changing to the new algorithm must not be done - lightly as these applications may break unless reinstalled. - New installations of Samba may set the default to hash2.</para> - <para>Default: <command>mangling method = hash</command></para> - <para>Example: <command>mangling method = hash2</command></para> + lightly as these applications may break unless reinstalled.</para> + <para>Default: <command>mangling method = hash2</command></para> + <para>Example: <command>mangling method = hash</command></para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><anchor id="MANGLEPREFIX">mangle prefix (G)</term> + <listitem><para> controls the number of prefix + characters from the original name used when generating + the mangled names. A larger value will give a weaker + hash and therefore more name collisions. The minimum + value is 1 and the maximum value is 6.</para> + <para>Default: <command>mangle prefix = 1</command></para> + <para>Example: <command>mangle prefix = 4</command></para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |