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From: bstrong@sleepy.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: filename remapping problem
Message-ID: <1343.28155889@sleepy.bmd.trw.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 17:06:01 GMT
Reply-To: bstrong@oz.bmd.trw.com
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This question has probably been asked several times before, but I am having
a file naming problem and want to know if NFS is the one doing it.  When
I save files from a MAC to a file server (thru a Cayman GatorBox and a
Sun 3/150 as my Yellow Pages server) and look at the files from a PC, the
names are altered (remapped?) to include a tilde even though they are only
3-6 characters long (yet the MAC still sees the correct filename). 
Furthermore, sometimes when the PCs save files to other file servers
this remapping is again done (again, filenames are less than eight characters).

Here is our setup:

MACs using file servers via GatorBoxes and AppleShare
PCs running Sun PC-NFS 3.0.1
One YP server - a Sun 3/150
Four additional file servers (NEC 386 hosts) running -
      Interactive SVR3.2
      Wollongong TCP/IP for Streams
      Wollongong NFS for Streams

Is this a PC-NFS problem?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Bryan Strong        TRW * Ogden, UT
                    bstrong@oz.bmd.trw.com