Computer guru advice (W98)

[Gadget]

Anyone techie with W98? I'm sort of stumped with this: a network drive not being able to use long file names.

It's a specific shared drive that the machine it lives on can use long file names on. The 98 machine can see & access the files with long filenames. It just can't re-name any "xxxxxx~1.txt" files (or save anything) to a file name beyond the standard DOS 8 char format.
There are other network drives shared from the same source that work normally.

I'm confused. - anyone help?

[Gordon J Pownall]

Anyone techie with W98? I'm sort of stumped with this: a network drive not being able to use long file names.

It's a specific shared drive that the machine it lives on can use long file names on. The 98 machine can see & access the files with long filenames. It just can't re-name any "xxxxxx~1.txt" files (or save anything) to a file name beyond the standard DOS 8 char format.
There are other network drives shared from the same source that work normally.

I'm confused. - anyone help?

All the above looks like English but.........

[Northants Girly]

This might help: http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1

Ages ago a spoof virus alert got alot of people to delete their sulfnbk.exe files so you may not have it - you should be able to pick one up from somwwhere though.

[bigdjiver]

try running sfc.exe from the run command on the machine where you are running from.

This is system file checker, and will ensure all the windows components are present and not corrupted. You will probably need the installation CD.

[Gadget]

Sorted - thanks, but it was just a freak glitch: set the folder options to allow all upper case, removed and re-mapped the drive, all works as well as it should.
(I was going to put "all works 100%", but it's an old machine running W98 when everything else is W2K/XP)

[bigdjiver]

Thanks for the feedback, it might help someone else.

Google advanced groups search is superb for info on such technical problems, once you get the search criteria right..

http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_group_search?hl=en

[Gadget]

Yea - spent hours looking for something similar to no avail.