samba - Jun 2004 - Help with: "Cannot copy Filename: The specified net

>
>Error copying file or folder - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I have not - do not wrk with linux - however, 
I have seen similar behaviour working with Mac (OS9 and OSX)

This usually has been the result of illegal character(s) in the file or folder
name, or illegal placement of legal characters. Either on the server, or on the
source/destination machine.

the following legal characters placed incorrectly can can cause the same or
similar error messages:
- file name length - if the file or folder name is too long.
- leading spaces
- leading periods
- trailing spaces
- trailing periods

will likely choke the copy process.

I have an applescript (which won't do you any good) that removes illegal
characters in Mac file/folder names before tranfering to a windows machine. 
Follows is a list of characters that are removed.
{"\\", "/", ":", ";", "*",
"?", "\"", "<", ">",
"|", "#", "?", return, tab}

in case this list gets munged up during transit -
double back slash, single forward slash, colon, semi colon, asterisk, question
mark, single back slash, left arrow (shift + comma), right arrow (shoft +
period), bar (shift + back slash), pound (shfit +3), bullet (option + 8 [ascii
165]) ), <return>, <tab>

some of these characters are not possible to use on some OSes, except for colon,
<return> and <tab> all of them can be inserted into a filename by a
user on a Mac.  Colon is the directory marker (like"/" on windows) for
a Mac, and I have seen programs insert <return> and <tab> into
filenames.

Chip Scheide
Systems Coordinator 
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
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Thanks Chip,

Unfortunately I have checked for bung characters and too long pathnames
and the like ... and we are still getting this error....

I am suspicious of timeouts or something ...

mjt


On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 00:31, Chip Scheide wrote:
> >
> >Error copying file or folder - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
> I have not - do not wrk with linux - however,
> I have seen similar behaviour working with Mac (OS9 and OSX)
> 
> This usually has been the result of illegal character(s) in the file or
folder name, or illegal placement of legal characters. Either on the server, or
on the source/destination machine.
> 
> the following legal characters placed incorrectly can can cause the same or
similar error messages:
> - file name length - if the file or folder name is too long.
> - leading spaces
> - leading periods
> - trailing spaces
> - trailing periods
> 
> will likely choke the copy process.
> 
> I have an applescript (which won't do you any good) that removes
illegal characters in Mac file/folder names before tranfering to a windows
machine.  Follows is a list of characters that are removed.
> {"\\", "/", ":", ";",
"*", "?", "\"", "<",
">", "|", "#", "?", return, tab}
> 
> in case this list gets munged up during transit -
> double back slash, single forward slash, colon, semi colon, asterisk,
question mark, single back slash, left arrow (shift + comma), right arrow (shoft
+ period), bar (shift + back slash), pound (shfit +3), bullet (option + 8 [ascii
165]) ), <return>, <tab>
> 
> some of these characters are not possible to use on some OSes, except for
colon, <return> and <tab> all of them can be inserted into a
filename by a user on a Mac.  Colon is the directory marker (like"/"
on windows) for a Mac, and I have seen programs insert <return> and
<tab> into filenames.
> 
> Chip Scheide
> Systems Coordinator
> Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
> ------
> Notify Immediately if you do NOT receive this email.
> 
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