Guest Geoffrey Starr Posted May 8, 2008 Posted May 8, 2008 My team uses a file storage "server", at another physical location on our network, and when we save files to it from our PC's every thing is ok. However when our Mac's vew the files on the "server" the names appear truncated to six characters and a ~ plus the file extention. It show up only on the MAC side of things so i was hoping there was a way to make the names appear on the Macs the same way as they do for the PC's.
Guest William Mann Posted May 8, 2008 Posted May 8, 2008 RE: PC Server File/Folders display as truncated on MAC Can you be more specific? Are you using SMB/CIFS or AFP? What version of Mac OS are you using? "Geoffrey Starr" wrote: > My team uses a file storage "server", at another physical location on our > network, and when we save files to it from our PC's every thing is ok. > However when our Mac's vew the files on the "server" the names appear > truncated to six characters and a ~ plus the file extention. It show up only > on the MAC side of things so i was hoping there was a way to make the names > appear on the Macs the same way as they do for the PC's.
Guest Geoffrey Starr Posted May 8, 2008 Posted May 8, 2008 RE: PC Server File/Folders display as truncated on MAC Windows NT OS on the & Mac OS X (10.4) "William Mann" wrote: > Can you be more specific? Are you using SMB/CIFS or AFP? What version of Mac > OS are you using? > > "Geoffrey Starr" wrote: > > > My team uses a file storage "server", at another physical location on our > > network, and when we save files to it from our PC's every thing is ok. > > However when our Mac's vew the files on the "server" the names appear > > truncated to six characters and a ~ plus the file extention. It show up only > > on the MAC side of things so i was hoping there was a way to make the names > > appear on the Macs the same way as they do for the PC's.
Guest William Mann Posted May 8, 2008 Posted May 8, 2008 RE: PC Server File/Folders display as truncated on MAC NT4? That could well be your problem. I haven't tested pulling an NT4 file to a Mac, but it does sound like the 8.3 notation that DOS had with long filenames. You could try firing up the terminal on the Mac, and using smbclient (have a read of http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbclient.1.html). There may well be an option to support longfile names in NT4, I don't know that OS so well. You could always try installing apple sharing service, and sharing the folders as appleshares rather than windows. HTH. "Geoffrey Starr" wrote: > Windows NT OS on the & Mac OS X (10.4) > > "William Mann" wrote: > > > Can you be more specific? Are you using SMB/CIFS or AFP? What version of Mac > > OS are you using? > > > > "Geoffrey Starr" wrote: > > > > > My team uses a file storage "server", at another physical location on our > > > network, and when we save files to it from our PC's every thing is ok. > > > However when our Mac's vew the files on the "server" the names appear > > > truncated to six characters and a ~ plus the file extention. It show up only > > > on the MAC side of things so i was hoping there was a way to make the names > > > appear on the Macs the same way as they do for the PC's.
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