Samba client oddity

[Roger <roger.varley@googlemail.com>]

I have installed Freecom Storage Gateway as a NAS device on a combined 
Windows/Debian network. The FSG is linux powered and runs Samba. It works 
fine from the windows boxes, it's when I try to access it from Debian 
(Lenny) that things start to behave oddly. When accessing files and folders 
on the FSG via the smb:// protocol, Nautilus displays the names of files
and folders as truncated. So, a file "dummy.txt" appears as "dumm .txt". A 
folder "mail" appears as "mai". Konqueror does exactly the same thing. 
Googling for a solution turns up this http://www.debianhelp.org/node/15383 
but as a Debian newbie I don't understand the response. Could someone 
explain what I need to do to fix the problem.

Thanks