Re: [WinMac] Re: Win98 long name files hangs, quits Mac Finder

Thomas Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:40:10 -0400

From: Brent Martin <martinb@nrn1.nrcan.gc.ca>
>I have the same problem where a file created in Windows 95 with more than
>31 characters stored on a Novell 3.11 server crashes the Macintosh clients
>accessing that directory. I believe that it is an acknowledged bug with
>Novell 3.11 that lets the Windows client use file names that are too long
>when Macintosh services for Novell are installed. A patch is available for
>this problem from Novell but I haven't had the guts to install it yet since
>they recommend reinstalling the NOS from scratch and then restoring your
>files from backup.

It's been a good many years since I've used Netware 3.11 but when runing
Netware 4.10 I installed the OS2 namespace and that supported the long file
names from the NT workstations. I'm guessing that you've already got the
Mac namespace loaded.

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