Using SMB on sees shared folder name length <= 11 on Win2000 Server

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From: Michael Wu (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:31:09 -0800

If I create a folder with a name length more then 11
characters and
make it shared on Window 2000 server, I cannot see it when
I use
smb://fileserver from OS X 10.3.6.

Is there a 8.3 file name convention here?

Any workround?

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