Re: Mac file names too long??
- From: William Smith <mecklists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:29:53 -0500
Hi Danny!
My comments are inline...
In article <u5uYjhKqFHA.3064@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Danny" <danny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have an SBS2K3 server and various WinXP and Mac clients.
>
> We have 2 main problems;
> 1..... is that when we attampt to copy files with names ove 31 characters it
> will not allow this unless we reduce the file name. Is there a way around
> this or is this a limitation with using MACs on windows server??
This is a limit of Windows Server's implementation of the AFP 2.2
protocol. Mac OS X uses AFP 3.x, which supports longer file names. The
only solution is to either use and AFP 3.x server product such as
ExtremeZ-IP from http://www.grouplogic.com or use SMB instead of AFP.
For multiple Mac clients I suggest ExtremeZ-IP.
> 2... is that the MACs can see and share files on the server and talk to the
> internet provided the users passwords are blank....if we create passwords
> for the users on the server then we cannot access the server etc regardless
> of the autentication method we try to use. Even without passwords we are
> unable to perform certain functions from the MACs, i.e. FTP to other sites
> even using passive FTP, we cannot listen to the radio through the MACs even
> though realplayer has the correct proxy settings etc. There is no problem
> from the WinXP clients so I believe that the ISA server must be configured
> OK. We have followed some articles for bypassing the proxy server on the
> MACs, however even once this has been implemented they still get an ISA
> authentication error, even though we are trying to bypass it.
Microsoft does not make an ISA client for Macs and therefore
authentication becomes a problem. The only protocols that work with
authentication from a Mac are http and https (web and secure web). Other
protocols such as FTP don't work.
You can work around this by adding the MAC address (the Mac's hardware
address) to the ISA server and allowing all traffic from that address to
pass through the server. This limits access to the Internet to the
machine only and does not limit any users of that machine.
Hope this helps! bill
--
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)
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