PC Server File/Folders display as truncated on MAC

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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