Ron,
I, too, have a problem with this.  If I have to restore a file in a
directory along with many similarly named files (long names) I don't
know how to make the corellation.  Help IBM! or should I say "Help
Novell!"?

Ron Clendenny
Callaway Nuclear Plant
Fulton, Missouri
<rdclendenny AT cal.ue DOT com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Heflin [SMTP:RON.X.HEFLIN AT X400GW.AMERITECH DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 1997 4:57 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Novell long filenames
>
> Has anyone been having problems with the way ADSM handles long
> filenames (MAC, OS/2, WIN95) on Novell servers?
>
> While the user may use a long filename for their file it seems adsm
> only
> uses the 8.3 dos filename when backing up the file.  We have had
> situations where users create directory names that are the same names
> as
>
> Novell translated long filenames.
>
> The long filenames in raise other problems for us.  How do locate a
> file
> in ADSM for restore when the user only knows the long filename?  In
> other words, how do you correlate the long filenames to 8.3 names that
> you can use when restoring the file?  How can we find the file in the
> ADSM database and find the file to see if it even exists in the
> database
> under the same scenario?
>
> TIA
>
>   Ron