I have run accross an interesting problem--one that didn't happen in 95 but that happens in NT. If you create a shortcut to a DOS program and store that shortcut on a samba drive, if the path where the shortcut is stored has a non 8.3 path, the shortcut won't work and says that it cant find the shortcut.(!) I'm guessing it has something to do with the way that MS deals with the long file names. Has anyone else run accross the problem and did you find a solution? The same shortcuts run on a real NT server regardless of 8.3 paths or not. -- Brian McLean brianm@et.byu.edu Lab / Systems Administrator win95@et.byu.edu CAEDM / College of Engineering Brigham Young University CB306a 378-5351
I've had a similar problem when trying to run a self extracting zip file from a path containing a non-8.3 element. It says "The system cannot execute the specified program." I have not tried it from 95 so I don't know if it is only a problem on NT. I do know that it is only a problem through Samba as it works fine when using either an NT share or a DFS share. The way around this is to specify the mangled version of the non-8.3 element in the path. At least it works in my case. Murray R. Barrett, IBM Toronto Lab, Development Distributed Services Phone: (416) 448-6054 - Tieline: 778-6054 Lotus Notes mail: Murray Barrett/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA IBM internal: murrayb@ibmca - Internet: murrayb@ca.ibm.com