PC Server File/Folders display as truncated on MAC

[Guest Geoffrey Starr]

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]

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]

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]

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.