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XP+Map Drive+ long filenames
Name: mowtown75 Date: October 20, 2004 at 21:44:54 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: P4/512
Comment:
Hi,
When I map to my home drive within our work environment, I notice that the Map drive Icon appears in the left pane of win explorer, under the CDrom, but there is no drive letter allocated nxt to it.
Also, When I try to transfer a file across to it, I get the error "destination does not support long filenames" the it prompts me to enter a shorter name.
This is crazy. My colleagues are on the same network and running the same spec PC.
Name: snipes Date: October 21, 2004 at 05:04:36 Pacific
Reply:
well , i wonder if the name of his computer is not too long.. try to rename it and then try again .. net use * \\computername\sharing post back whats the name of his pc .?
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Response Number 2
Name: snipes Date: October 21, 2004 at 05:46:49 Pacific
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