Hello Michael, 

This is a semi wild guess, If this was windows I would suggest you look at the 
Unicode setting for the filespace. It has been a while since I have had a 
novell client so I am not sure if they support UNICODE or not and what is the 
max path and segment length for the novell client.

But if it is Unicode it might be counting the multiple bytes of a Unicode 
character as multiple characters instead of one Unicode character pushing you 
over a limit. 

See the sample values for UNICODE in the following output from a query 
filespace command:

                                     Node Name: FRISCO-1
                                Filespace Name: \\frisco-1\d$_OLD
                    Hexadecimal Filespace Name:
                                          FSID: 2
                                      Platform: WinNT
                                Filespace Type: NTFS
                         Is Filespace Unicode?: No
                                 Capacity (MB): 138,701.8
                                      Pct Util: 43.3
                   Last Backup Start Date/Time: 12/25/2001 23:00:32
                Days Since Last Backup Started: 2,715
              Last Backup Completion Date/Time: 12/26/2001 05:07:00
              Days Since Last Backup Completed: 2,714
ast Full NAS Image Backup Completion Date/Time:
ays Since Last Full NAS Image Backup Completed:

                                     Node Name: FRISCO-1
                                Filespace Name: \\frisco-1\d$
                    Hexadecimal Filespace Name: 5c5c66726973636f2d315c6424
                                          FSID: 5
                                      Platform: WinNT
                                Filespace Type: NTFS
ore...   (<ENTER> to continue, 'C' to cancel)

                         Is Filespace Unicode?: Yes
                                 Capacity (MB): 511,997.0
                                      Pct Util: 38.5
                   Last Backup Start Date/Time: 05/30/2009 23:43:19
                Days Since Last Backup Started: 2
              Last Backup Completion Date/Time: 05/31/2009 20:59:17
              Days Since Last Backup Completed: 1
ast Full NAS Image Backup Completion Date/Time:
ays Since Last Full NAS Image Backup Completed:

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Michael Green
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 4:02 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] ANS4018E Error

I began backing up a new client today. It's SLES system running
iFolder (a file sharing product from Novell).
The product resides on NSS formatted volume.
Upon doing initial backup got this error:
ANS4018E Error processing
'/media/nss/NFVOL/iFolder/simias/data/simias/SimiasFiles/0a/a73fda04-34fd-4b1e-9073-21d0e813b2c2/NDrive/baruch/KNOWKEDGE
WIZARD/??? ????ת ש?? ??ע? ?????? ??? ????ת ש?? ??ע? ?????? ??? ????ת
ש?? ??ע? ?????? ??? ????ת ש?? ??ע? ?????? ??? ????ת ש?? ??ע? ??????
??? ????ת ?': file name too long

The file name seems to be in hebrew (My terminal is incapable of
displaying the hebrew characters properly).
Other files using hebrew characters seem to be backed up ok.

Any insights what can be done about this problem (besides the obvious
"have the user rename his file")?

Client is at  version 5.5.2/Linux. So is the server.
 --
Warm regards,
Michael Green