You certainly tried. We have a 5 folder limit on the
W2000P when accessed from NT4 by LAN but we don't know why.
No limit on NT4 wrk--> NT4 wrk or W2000P --> W2000P. We
tried C$ and new share. We did install a symantec personal
firewall but turned off all local access protection. If
you find something,
(E-Mail Removed), thanks
for trying.
>-----Original Message-----
>followed your instructions
>
>(which BTW was almost exactly what I did in my second
post, with 2
>exceptions - I used a NT 4.0 wrk machine to browse to the
win2kp machine
>instead of win2kp --> win2kp, and you did not specify to
create a share so I
>just used the administrative share C$)
>
>I stopped testing at 25 directories deep.
>
>and yes I was setting at a NT 4.0 machine and open
windows explorer and
>browsed to the win2kp machine \\pc1\c$ and kept going
down to 25 deep. In
>my other post I got to about 250 deep using both UNC and
Mapped drive.
>
>
>-----------------------------
>
>don't know why you machines will not go past 5, but it is
not an operating
>system limit. 5 is rather limited so is 7, I spent 2
hours searching Google
>on this issue and found nothing except issues on the 260
character path
>limitation.
>
>
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:189c01c426e1$e160efa0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Very basic, take a drive (partition), NTFS, create 10
>> folders down, 2 under 1, 3 under 2, 10 under 9, etc.,
set
>> all permissions to full, allow propagation down, the
drive
>> is shared with no restrictions. You can access all 10
>> from the same machine (W2000P). Go to another machine
on
>> the LAN (we have several on NT4), access the drive,
access
>> the folders and it works fine thru folder 4 but you
cannot
>> open folder 5,"the network name cannot be found". By
>> setting a folder share on folder 4 name ="4" then it
shows
>> up like a drive in the LAN listing (F-Web, 4)and is
>> accessable and on down to 9 but cannot open 9, same
>> problem.
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Sorry that was more like 250 subdirectories not 259.
>> >
>> >
>> >"none" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> >news:1O3hc.173284$K91.439402@attbi_s02...
>> >> well I don't know what to tell you, unless I am
>> misinterpreting what you
>> >are
>> >> doing. I tried it on 2 separate machines, both
windows
>> 2000 pro. one was
>> >> NTFS and the other was FAT32 neither stopped at 5 or
7.
>> >>
>> >> I created ten directories deep and I was able to
browse
>> all the way to
>> >> \\pc1\pctest1\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\10 from a remote pc
>> and was able to
>> >create
>> >> a text file in the 10th level. I also tried it as
>> mapped drive
>> >> z:\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\10 and it also worked with any
>> issues. I was also
>> >able
>> >> to see the 10th subfolder at the command prompt. The
>> only limit I have
>> >ever
>> >> run into us the 260 character path length.
>> >>
>> >> I can not help but think something is a miss here, in
>> the 12 years I have
>> >> been networking I have not run into any such
>> limitations even in the dos
>> >> days. could there be something you are leaving out
>> maybe - HTTP/web, FTP,
>> >> Netware, some third party networking protocol.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> just for the hell of it I created a batch file
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ------------------------
>> >> c:
>> >> cd pctest1
>> >>
>> >> :i
>> >> md 1
>> >> cd 1
>> >> goto i
>> >> ----------------------------
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> to quickly create 259 subdirectories
>> >>
>> >> It took some time and a hell of a lot of clicking
but I
>> was able to browse
>> >> all the way down from another pc via a mapped drive
and
>> UNC.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>> >> news:164501c4269b$fb8573b0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> > Network share that has deep directory structure
>> >> > path is
>> >> > F:images_web partition name
>> >> > folder names = 1
>> >> > 2
>> >> > 3
>> >> > 4
>> >> > reading from LAN stops here 5
>> >> > 6
>> >> > 7
>> >> >
>> >> > >-----Original Message-----
>> >> > >Your question is somewhat confusing I am not sure
if
>> you
>> >> > are talking about a
>> >> > >network share that has a deep directory structure
or
>> >> > simultaneous
>> >> > >connections.
>> >> > >
>> >> > >If it is simultaneous connections then it is 10
>> >> > >
>> >> > >if you are talking about a deep directory
>> structure , I
>> >> > stopped testing 10
>> >> > >at directories deep. I think what you are running
>> into is
>> >> > not the number of
>> >> > >folders but the number of characters in the path -
>> That
>> >> > may also include the
>> >> > >pc name and share name if you are doing it via UNC
>> >> > >\\mypcname\mysharename\dir1\dir2\dir3
>> \dir4............
>> >> > >I believe the path limit is 260 characters
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > >"brett" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote
>> in
>> >> > message
>> >> > >news:0aa801c425a4$59a44aa0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> > >> Folders on W2000P, 7 folders deep. Accessing
from
>> NT4 on
>> >> > >> LAN. Can access all 7 deep on W2000P machine but
>> can
>> >> > >> access only down 5 from LAN. Gives error network
>> name
>> >> > >> cannot be found. All permissions set to max,
all
>> >> > >> permissions propagate down, no restrictions.
>> Cannot find
>> >> > >> any setting for max allowed folders to be open
by
>> LAN.
>> >> > >> Created new folders 1 into 2 into 3 .... 7. same
>> >> > problem.
>> >> > >> Problem does not exist on NT4 to NT4, no limit
on
>> >> > folders.
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > >.
>> >> > >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
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