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From: dave@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu ("David E. Johnson")
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Subject: PC-NFS filename mapping problem?
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Date: 9 Dec 89 19:07:59 GMT
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We have setup a UNIX System V.3 NFS server for our PC applications.
However, file mapping between UNIX and DOS filenames is being done
wrong.  Valid DOS filenames of length 6-8 plus an extension of any
length gets mapped as if they are invalid in DOS.  Such names as
"hostname.exe" get mapped as "hostn~xx".  This causes all DOS programs
to not be able to run under NFS.

When we use a Sun as the server, the mapping is done correctly.  Has
anyone run across this problem before?  If so, is there anything that
I can do about it?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me...


David E. Johnson               ** Title:        Systems Programmer
Department of Computer Science ** Telephone:    (601) 232-7396
The University of Mississippi  ** Internet:     dave@cs.olemiss.edu
336 Weir Hall                  **
University, MS  38677          **