RE: [cobalt-users] Cross Platform file names

["Clark E. Morgan" <prlhkr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> In my NasRaq, any files created by Windows clients with file names longer 
> than 26 (31?) characters are invisible to the Mac clients. On a Windows 
> NT server, these file names are translated so they are visible.
> 
> Anyone capable of programming this feature into the NasRaq? What would 
> you charge?

Long filename semantics on the Mac and the PC are quite different and
so I don't see where one could code such a thing to compensate for this.
I have in the past found two solutions that work reasonably well. One
is to disallow spaces in your pc filenames in files stored on the
unit running samba. Do a search on "mangling" in the samba docs. The 
other, perhaps better, solution is to run exlusively atalk on the NasRaq
and use one of the pieces of PC/Mac connectivity software to 
fileshare on your NasRaq. In particular, I have been quite successful
with PC MacLan:

http://www.miramarsys.com/products/index.html

Qualifier: I have only ever done this with SlakWare flavor. I have no
idea what a cobalt machine will do with it; and the ever present
question - how it will affect your warranty.

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Clark Morgan