Stéphane Thomas wrote in news:40fe32b7$0
$14205$626a14ce@news.free.fr:

> Hi all,
>
> My Netware server answer me "Cannot create file, filename too long" if
> i try to create a file named "i:i". I guess 3 chars for a filename is
> not too long and it's the char ":" that is problematic. The Netware
> share is mounted by an ncpmount command on a Mandrake 10 workstation. I
> found this problem trying to backup my ~/evolution directory onto the
> server. Is there any solution ?

I don't know about Linux, but the colon is illegal in a filename on
Netware, as on Windows.

Kind regards,
Erik Klausen

Erik Klausen wrote:
> Stéphane Thomas wrote in news:40fe32b7$0
> $14205$626a14ce@news.free.fr:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>> My Netware server answer me "Cannot create file, filename too long" if
>>i try to create a file named "i:i". I guess 3 chars for a filename is
>>not too long and it's the char ":" that is problematic. The Netware
>>share is mounted by an ncpmount command on a Mandrake 10 workstation. I
>>found this problem trying to backup my ~/evolution directory onto the
>>server. Is there any solution ?
>
>
> I don't know about Linux, but the colon is illegal in a filename on
> Netware, as on Windows.

On Linux and all unices as far as i know the only illegal char in a
filename is the slash as it's a treelevel indicator. Thanks for this
information. I notice the error message "File name too long", the
implementation of the ncpfs linux module it's not perfect
I will have to use a compressed archive to backup my mail client's data.

Stef

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:45:57 +0200, Stéphane Thomas wrote:
> On Linux and all unices as far as i know the only illegal char in a
> filename is the slash as it's a treelevel indicator.

Since you're using ncpfs, you have to deal with what's valid on the other
side of the connection. In this case, : isn't a legal character in the file
name, since that's part of the "drive letter" stuff that we got from
Microsoft way back when.

Now, if you were mounting the remote file system via NFS instead of NCPFS,
I would expect your : to work, since that would be stored in the file
system of the NetWare server using the NFS namespace, not the DOS/Windows
namespace.

> I will have to use a compressed archive to backup my mail client's data.

That's probably your best bet.

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David Gersic wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:45:57 +0200, Stéphane Thomas wrote:

> Now, if you were mounting the remote file system via NFS instead of NCPFS,
> I would expect your : to work, since that would be stored in the file
> system of the NetWare server using the NFS namespace, not the DOS/Windows
> namespace.

I could do that if i was working with Netware 6.0 but it seems that i
could not do it with 5.1, could i ?

Stef

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:19:41 +0200, Stéphane Thomas wrote:
> I could do that if i was working with Netware 6.0 but it seems that i
> could not do it with 5.1, could i ?

Yes, but you'd have to get and install the Unix File and Print Services
product.

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