Hi,
I had a weird problem last week, and I'd like to share what I found - maybe it will help some folks out!
Without going through the seemingly endless tricks and traps on Mac SMB scanning, I had an issue where only one out of 3 Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6 workstations could not be "scanned to". I was working with a Ricoh MP C2550, but that's probably immaterial.
When configured correctly, you should be able to browse to all of your Mac SMB shares; this one would not show up. Typing the hostname in on the control panel didn't work, either.
I was able to use the IP address, though, and it worked. The customer has all fixed IPs for their small contingent of macs, so this was more than acceptable, but I still asked "Why?".
The hostname of the troublesome Mac looked long to me, so I counted the characters - there were 16. Specs for SMB for Windows actually allow for 16, but supposedly one character is reserved, and hidden.
Turns out that the one extra character was the problem.
I looked in the TSC Web knowledge base, and some other Ricoh resources, and could find no mention of any limitation anywhere, but obviously there must be one.
I guess it's safe to say that the limit is 15 characters.
I had a weird problem last week, and I'd like to share what I found - maybe it will help some folks out!
Without going through the seemingly endless tricks and traps on Mac SMB scanning, I had an issue where only one out of 3 Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6 workstations could not be "scanned to". I was working with a Ricoh MP C2550, but that's probably immaterial.
When configured correctly, you should be able to browse to all of your Mac SMB shares; this one would not show up. Typing the hostname in on the control panel didn't work, either.
I was able to use the IP address, though, and it worked. The customer has all fixed IPs for their small contingent of macs, so this was more than acceptable, but I still asked "Why?".
The hostname of the troublesome Mac looked long to me, so I counted the characters - there were 16. Specs for SMB for Windows actually allow for 16, but supposedly one character is reserved, and hidden.
Turns out that the one extra character was the problem.
I looked in the TSC Web knowledge base, and some other Ricoh resources, and could find no mention of any limitation anywhere, but obviously there must be one.
I guess it's safe to say that the limit is 15 characters.
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