Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Names over 32 chars
From: Andrew Solmssen (solmssen@ca.metsci.com)
Date: Fri May 08 1998 - 14:37:43 EDT
Agreed - this has been a major problem for us. The only solution I came up
with was to tell people not to make filenames that long. Maybe if netatalk
had a name mangler a la windows short filenames.
---- Andrew
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> Came across another stone on the winding footpath of mac/pc/unix
> integration just now.
>
> If a Samba user makes a file with a name over 32 chars, the Macs using
> Netatalk (latest asun on linux) can see it just fine, but get wierd errors
> using it:
>
> Some apps say 'file not found', but others (such as Office 98) say 'invalid
> file type' or just 'can't open file'.
>
> Everything shows up just fine in chooser and in file list windows.
>
> It looks as though it can be renamed, but this seems to crash the Mac
> sometimes, and doesn't actually rename the file on the server.
>
>
> Has anyone else come across these issues or solutions to them?
>
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