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Mac to Novell filename issues may block copying
Authored by: beepotato on Mar 25, '06 01:56:43AM

> That's just piss poor programing.

On the other hand, Microsoft wrote Entourage for the Mac, not for Windows.
I mean, it's very frustrating for programmers and users of Mac OS when they get asked to limit what they can do with this OS just because of Windows' own limitations. After all, if you use a Mac, it is to do more than you could do with Windows! ;-)

BTW, can't you copy your users' documents to a HFS+ disk image on the Windows server? This way, you wouldn't have any problem with filename compatibility.



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Mac to Novell filename issues may block copying
Authored by: redclawx on Mar 27, '06 01:26:09PM

Yes, mounting an HFS+ disk image from the serving on your Mac and then copying the files to the mounted disk would work. Up until the point when you need to get to the files from a Windows computer. And turning on Windows File Sharing on the local Mac doesn't help either.

I just ran a test with 2 folders and 2 files. The folders and files appeared just fine on the mac but from Windows the ones with illegal characters had garbled file names:
Folders: (Mac -> PC)
Hello -> Hello
Hello/ -> H0MUWZ~3
Files: (Mac -> PC)
Hello.rtf -> Hello.rtf
Hello.rtf/ -> H0MUWZ~3.RTF



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