long filenames are truncated

[Gerald]

I've got a W2K server with SFM installed and several mac
accessible shares set-up. When I access the mac shares
from a 10.2.8 machine using NTLMv2 long file and folder
names get truncated. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Gerald

 

[William M. Smith]

I've got a W2K server with SFM installed and several mac
accessible shares set-up. When I access the mac shares
from a 10.2.8 machine using NTLMv2 long file and folder
names get truncated. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Gerald!

I'm not quite sure what you mean by accessing mac shares using NTLMv2, but
SFM on Windows server is only capable of 31 character file names. If you
have file names longer than that, you'll sometimes see the Windows short
name displayed on the Mac instead.

Connecting to the server via SMB rather than AFP will allow you to use long
file names.

Additionally, the version of AFP on Windows Server 2003 is also the older
version that can not support long file names.

Hope this helps! bill

 

[Setman]

Hello.

I found this old thread while searching for a solution to my problems. I was wondering, has there been any progress since this thread was active?

Problem: I have a Win2k-server which I cannot copy file to, from a Mac, with file names longer than 32 characters. It's really driving me crazy having to edit all the names of files I get from costumers.

We are using Mac OS X 1.3.x to 1.4.x with the same bad results.

I should also say that we connect via AFP because when using SMB (which gave the possibility to use long filenames) we experienced loss in transfer speeds and failures in file recognition, which was a bigger problem than that with the filenames.

With hope of reply
//Setman
Sweden

 

[tacf]

Similar issues

Hi there,

We're using AFP as well, largely because it allows illegal characters. However, like you're saying, filenames are truncated. I find this really retarded, that Windows can handle the filenames, and Mac can handle them too, but the protocol they use to communicate can't.

Not. Good. Bed-partners.

I'll post if we find a solution that works.

 

[Setman]

Thanx! I'll be sure to do the same. Though it doesn't seem to be any real hope of getting it to work any time soon.

Best regards
//seth