Topic: longer names

[webster]

It would be good to make the Ibay name up to 20 characters long if possible (requested by a number of clients)

It would also be good to change 12 character default length...
I know the max has always been 15 for usernames, groups and ibays but defaulty set to 12... whynot have it set to the max by default? and give the option to restrict if you want to?

Just a couple of Ideas

T

[chaissac]

20 seems me quite long, and in any case too long for netbios... and also for 'groupadd' and 'useradd', which have a limit to 16 chars.

But I see no reason for the 12 chars restriction, I have W95 clients allowing up to 15, so is it a W3.11 issue ?

But it's always possible, for fine tuning to follow that procedure :

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set whatyouwannachange 15  
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save

where whatyouwannachange could be maxIbayNameLength, maxAcctNameLength or maxGroupNameLength.

 
one pint to help to swallow my bad English !

[webster]

I didn't even think about netbios with 95/8, I've been working with 2k and XP at late, ibays are the only thing that I've had requests to change

I've used
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set "whatever" 15
On almost all my servers I am sure there are many others that do so as well...thats why I thought why not make it max by standard, if there are people still using 3.11 then they could restrict the size, i can't see there would be many using 3.1 these days.

  Cater for the majority not the minority and do your best to include the minority wheh you can.

[chaissac]

I've used
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set "whatever" 15
On almost all my servers I am sure there are many others that do so as well...

So I did myself...

thats why I thought why not make it max by standard, if there are people still using 3.11 then they could restrict the size, i can't see there would be many using 3.1 these days.

That's an idea : make a poll about the OS used on the SME Server networks.

Cater for the majority not the minority and do your best to include the minority wheh you can.

And a poll on the default value for the max length !
my vote :
[15]

 
one pint to help to swallow my bad English !

[sat]

I've used
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set "whatever" 15
On almost all my servers I am sure there are many others that do so as well...

So I did myself...

thats why I thought why not make it max by standard, if there are people still using 3.11 then they could restrict the size, i can't see there would be many using 3.1 these days.

That's an idea : make a poll about the OS used on the SME Server networks.

Cater for the majority not the minority and do your best to include the minority wheh you can.

And a poll on the default value for the max length !
my vote :
[15]

 
one pint to help to swallow my bad English !

Seems to me that the best way to do this is with
a configuration page in server manager. While 20
characters are a good max, I think that there
should be functionality for larger, this way,
(expecially with Ibays) the ibay can be the name of the given url. Then if you have .com .org .net of the domainname the ibay can be domainname_org domainname_net and domainname_com if you want to have independent websites of the three. And you don't have to remember what you named the ibay.

Just my two pennies.

[Boris]

And you don't have to remember what you named the ibay.

Where is description field for ibay that you use for it.