Hi,

Did you try it with filer ?

Amos Haurissa

Nick wrote in message news:...
> An admin at our place accidentally created a user with a space at the
> end of the name and hence the users home directory with a space at the
> end too. The user could login ok (without typing the space) but didn't
> get the drive mapping. On spotting the problem, I renamed the user and
> removed the space, but any version of Windoze I could get my hands on
> refused to let me rename the users home directory "Error accessing
> folder" was all I got - even logged in as admin.
>
> I managed to rename it through NWAdmin ok.
>
> I guess this is a Windoze issue, but I'm just curious as to what was
> stopping me since I can create and rename/delete a folder with a space
> at the end on a local hard disk. For info, all NW5.1 and Edirectory 8.7.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick