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Re: Problems with NT MAC volume files

1998-09-22 12:25:13
Subject: Re: Problems with NT MAC volume files
From: "Chad W. Spurley" <CWSpurl AT LANDSEND DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:25:13 -0400
Hello Pete,

I'm using the same version of ADSM and running into the same problem.  I've
tried using the option you said, to no avail.  Does it matter where in your
dsm.opt you put it?  Is there another option that we may be missing?  Thanks
for your help.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Tanenhaus [mailto:tanenhau AT US.IBM DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 1:20 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Problems with NT MAC volume files
>
>
> Make sure that the UseUnicodeFilenames option is set as
> follows in your options
> file:
>
>        UseUniCodeFileNames Yes
>
> The Microsoft implementation of Appleshare in Service for
> Macintosh remaps some
> mac characters (0 through 255 I believe) which are invalid in the NTFS
> namespace to a user/application defined area in Unicode,
> which makes the names
> containing these characters only accessible in Unicode.
>
> The current ADSM Win32 client is not fully unicode enabled so
> the above
> mentioned option is required to force the
> object names to be obtained from the filesystem in Unicode
> (they are converted
> to something else internally).
>
> Since there are no corresponding code points in non-unicode
> codepages for these
> characters, the codepage
> specific (i.e. non-unicode) versions of filesystem Win32
> api's replace these
> characters with ? characters to indicate that
> the characters are not valid in the namespace.
>
> Hope this helps ....
>
> Pete Tanenhaus
> ADSM NT Client Development
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Pete Tanenhaus/San
> Jose/IBM on 09/21/98
> 10:38 PM ---------------------------
>
>
> ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU on 09/21/98 08:33:33 AM
> Please respond to ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:
> Subject: Problems with NT MAC volume files
>
>
> I am having difficulty with certain files in our NT MAC volume.
>
> Example of Folder Name:
> MAC\users\ht8j\ABA?ABNeca? APNEA?ABOPX
> (The ?'s are a / in the Mac world)
>
> We are receiving the following error messages in our error file:
>
> 09/21/1998 05:45:50 ANS1256E Cannot make file/directory
>
>
> From the list I see that this was supposed to be fixed with
> ptf 5 of the
> WIN32 client.  It does not appear to be fixed.
>
> Has this been fixed in any hotfix?
> (I have renamed the files to get them backed up, but need to fix the
> problem)
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ron Clarke
>
>
>
>
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