Oh,
And to add those finest little details:
Same users, same documents on Windows 98.. no problem.
Open a document with a long file name in
the corresponding application, and ‘save as’ under another long
name.. no problem either.
Yeah, time for more beer..
Regards,
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005
7:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: VERY
STRANGE ISSUE - Windows 95 and Long File Names
Hi,
During
our Novell/NT4 to W2K3 migration we are experiencing a very very strange issue
that we until now have not been able to solve.
The
situation is:
* Homedirectory data was stored
on Novell en users had a H-mapping to it
* Homedirectory data has been
migrated to Windows
* Netlogon loginscript has been
implemented in NT4 domain (clients/users are still in NT4 domain) and each user
in NT4 has it loginscript attribute with LOGON.BAT
* The
Netlogon loginscript makes a H-mapping for a user to its homedirectory on the
windows file server
* The Netlogon loginscript makes
a other mappings for a user to other locations on the windows file server
The
issue:
* Users can create documents with
WORD on H (new document in word and save in H) with long file names
* Users can create documents with
WORD on other drives (new document in word and save in H) with long file names
* Users can rename documents in
Explorer on other drives with long file names (document with some LFN gets
another LFN)
The
problem:
* SOME Users (NOT ALL)
CANNOT rename documents in Explorer on H-mapping with long file names (document
with some LFN gets another LFN is not possible!) It only accepts 8.3 names!!!
The VERY
STRANGE ISSUES:
* If we change the H-mapping for
the home directory to some other mapping (lets say T:) then the problem does
not occur --> ?????
* If we
in the command prompt type "NET USE H: /DELETE" and after that
"NET USE H: /HOME" (delete the H-mapping and create it again) the
problem does not occur --> ?????
WTF is
this???!!! I have tried everything, at least I think I have, and it's making me
nuts.
Has any of you guys experienced
this or do any of you what this is and/or how to solve this?
The
workaround we have until now is that we've sent those users a batch file that
recreates the H-mapping, but I would like to solve this by making it work in
the loginscript
I'm going
to get a beer and play some darts
Hope you guys can help. Thanks in
advance.... Have a nice weekend!
Regards,
Jorge
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