Re: Re: SFM, SMB and ExtremeZ-IP - boiled down?

"William Smith" wrote:
> In article <OvWiU0YVFHA.2796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "Jim Seifert [MSFT]" &lt;jimsei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&gt;
> wrote:
>
> > The SMB Apple client keeps getting better and better. There
> a couple of
> > issues that impact usability with SMB connections specific
> to file sharing
> > from Mac OS X clients to Windows Servers that may or may not
> be show
> > stoppers for you: 1.) The creation of .files in addition to
> the regular
> > files saved on the share. 2.) Some characters that are
> legal in Mac OS
> > file names are not legal on the Windows OS.
>
> And although the environment is all Mac OS X, I thought I'd
> add that
> EZIP or even SFM is favorable to SMB when sharing files with
> Mac OS 9
> clients. Apple's SMB is splitting the resource fork and data
> fork of
> each file (storing one under the file name and the other under
> the
> .._file name) and this makes using the files on Mac OS 9 more
> difficult.
>
> bill
> --
> William M. Smith
> (Microsoft Interop MVP)

Thanks Jim, William...
We do have a lot of ?creatively? named files that have been an issue
in the past. Seems that SMB does ?not? support those (and that may?ve
been GOOD
before they were created) and so we need the function of ?weird? file
name support (/$#*\ and etc) from ExtremeZ-IP. In addition, and I?m
still checking, the PASSWORD support thru our NT based (soon to be all
Win2003Server) is only eight letters... I?m checking to see if the
ExtremeZ-IP supports the full 14 that NT currently allows.

Many thanks... any other thoughts on this greatly appreciated.

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