Novell Long Filenames On Netware 4.11 and Windows 95

SUMMARY

The way that long filenames are stored on a NetWare 4.11 volume with long filename support is different from the way they are stored on Windows 95, or NT. 

For example, the file "This is a test.txt" will be stored as:
THISIS~1.TXT on Windows 95/NT

AND

THISISAT.TXT on a NetWare 4.11 volume with long filename support.

This format used for storing long filenames will create errors when trying to do MS Word integration from within Power Broker. The program will return a "File does not exist" error.


RESOLUTION

Novell NetWare 5 has been modified so that it will translate long filenames to 8.3 format in a different way to prevent possible filename conflicts.

There is also a patch for the NetWare 4.11 server, which will make the NetWare server behave the same way as NetWare 5 regarding long filename format. 

The name of the patch is called MIXMOD6.EXE, which will also include MIXMODFX.NLM. 

The patch can be found on the Novell support website in the file finder section.

The long filenames on NetWare 5 or on NetWare 4.11 with the patch, will be stored in the same manner. 

For example the file "This is a test.txt" will be stored as:
THIS_I~1.TXT



Document : PB980732
Creation Date : December-07-99