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Re: Problems with NT MAC volume files

1998-10-08 02:20:48
Subject: Re: Problems with NT MAC volume files
From: Adrian P Challinor <Adrian.Challinor AT OSIRIS.CO DOT UK>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 07:20:48 +0100
We had the same problem, but we managed to fix it.

We, err, well, we junked all our Mac's. Radical, I know, but it works.

(sorry!).

(P.S.: Anyone want a Quadra 950 or a PowerBook?)
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Adrian P Challinor                                 Osiris Consultants Ltd
                                        The Database Archival Specialists
e-mail: Adrian.Challinor AT osiris.co DOT uk
www: http://www.osiris.co.uk


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On
> Behalf Of
> Paul Zarnowski
> Sent: 07 October 1998 15:43
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Problems with NT MAC volume files
>
>
> We are anxiously awaiting this fix also.
> ..Paul
> --
> At 09:56 AM 10/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >Is anyone aware of a workaround for this problem or perhaps
> the approximate
> >date the fix will be available.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Gerald Siciliano
> >Moodys Investors Service
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Pete Tanenhaus [mailto:tanenhau AT US.IBM DOT COM]
> >Sent: Thursday, September 24, 1998 12:24 AM
> >To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >Subject: Re: Problems with NT MAC volume files
> >
> >
> >APAR IC22037 has been opened on this problem, a fix  should
> be available
> >within
> >the next week on the ftp server.
> >
> >Sorry for the inconvenience ......
> >
> >Pete Tanenhaus
> >ADSM NT Client Development
> >---------------------- Forwarded by Pete Tanenhaus/San
> Jose/IBM on 09/23/98
> >08:54 PM ---------------------------
> >
> >
> >ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU on 09/23/98 02:30:31 PM
> >Please respond to ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >cc:
> >Subject: Re: Problems with NT MAC volume files
> >
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am also encountering the same problem with the Macintosh
> characters on
> >NT.  Does anyone have any workarounds for this problem short
> of renaming
> >the directories?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Gerald Siciliano
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chad W. Spurley [mailto:CWSpurl AT LANDSEND DOT COM]
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 12:25 PM
> >To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >Subject: Re: Problems with NT MAC volume files
> >
> >
> >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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