I just took on a new client who is having a curious problem with mangled names. Here's the history as I understand it:
Originally they were on an NT server and there was no issue. My predecessor moved them to a samba server running on gentwo. I do not know what version of samba or how he moved the data, but when he did so, any files and folders with more than 8 characters started appearing mangled from two and only two apps. Those two apps are qbtimer (Quickbooks) and "RAM Structural System". I have moved them to a new server running 3.0.13 under Mandriva. The file names still appear mangled. Examples of how they are mangled: Engineering -> EHTEC6~Q MSWord Templates -> MLLW2U~K The apps are running under XP and my user swears they didn't have a problem under the old NT server. My assumption is that these two apps are using an old broken API, but if it really worked fine to an NT server, then there must be something better we can do...if we just get more standard looking 8.3 mangling, that would help. Any ideas? Chris -- Chris Garrigues Trinsic Solutions President 1611-B West 6th Street Austin, TX 78703-5074 512-322-0180 http://www.trinsics.com Would you rather proactively pay for uptime or reactively pay for downtime? Trinsic Solutions Your Proactive IT Management Partner
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