Subject: Re: Long Filenames
From: Matthew Geier (matthew@arts.usyd.edu.au)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 19:02:47 EDT
"Derek J. Balling" wrote:
>
> This is going to sound silly, but has ANYONE had any luck with transferring
> files with long filenames over to the Mac?
By shortening the names :-)
> In a previous version of netatalk I looked at, if the filename was too
> long, the mac simply wouldn't see it at all (Where I would expect it to see
> like an abbreviated version of the filename or something).
The trouble I see is that then NetATalk has to deal with the possiblity
of duplicate names being created. It just cant chop >32 off with out the
very likely possiblity of duplicates.
The 8.3 code is Samba is a nightmare to look at. Not only has does it
have to make sure a name doesnt duplicate, but does the same thing each
time. Unlike the M$ operating systems that just store both forms of the
name on the disk, Samba has to re-run the short name generator each
time.
> install), and I've tried DAVE (from thursby.com) to try and transfer them
> that way (except DAVE bones the long filenames by transferring them as
> 01PULP~3.MP3, using the 8.3 filename instead of working with the long
> filename to create something useful.
That I expect is sensible behavour. The 'long' name is to long, request
the 'short' name from the server instead. The munged short name would
have been created by Samba on the server.
-- Matthew Geier matthew@arts.usyd.edu.au Arts IT Unit +61 2 9351 4713 Sydney University
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