macintosh, file names

by **Dana Larson** » Wed, 30 Mar 2005 05:27:25 GMT

I support a smallish Win 2000 domain with about 30 Mac
users. We are in the process of trying to get the users
to all make SMB connections to our file servers, so we
can do away with SFM altogether. Unfortunately, the users
have at least a decade of being accustomed to naming
their files with characters that work fine on Macs, but
no so well on Windows. It's pretty clear that they are
going to have to go through their folders and rename
files with illegal characters.

What's the best way to do this?

by **Jim Seifert [MSFT]** » Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:41:54 GMT

I've used a freeware program call Mac2fat that does exactly this and does
nested folders too. You can find the download links on versiontracker.com.

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by **Robert S. Clayton II** » Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:42:04 GMT

I looked at the Mac2fat program and it looks pretty cool, but it has to
be run from the Mac side. In our environment, only the 2 comapny owners
use Macs, the rest of us have pc's and all management and real work is
done on the pc side, but the principles still create files. I have
tried to get them to name files without using certian characters, but
they just dont seem to get it. They probably will not be very helpful
running this program to solve our problem.

Dows anyone know of an equivalent program that will run on a PC and
strip the illegal charachters from file and folder names?

by JL » Thu, 05 May 2005 15:51:04 GMT

Perfect! I can connect and move files AFP is the solution! Although I have a
little permissions problems but it's nothing important.

Now we found two problems AFP OSX disconnections problems vs a W2003 and
people who is copying cd's comunnicate me that the OsX seems to run more
slowly than copying by SMB protocol

Thank You Very Much!!!!!
"Robert S. Clayton II" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > escribien el mensaje
>> I looked at the Mac2fat program and it looks pretty cool, but it has to >> be run from the Mac side. In our environment, only the 2 comapny owners >> use Macs, the rest of us have pc's and all management and real work is >> done on the pc side, but the principles still create files. I have >> tried to get them to name files without using certian characters, but >> they just dont seem to get it. They probably will not be very helpful >> running this program to solve our problem. >> >> Dows anyone know of an equivalent program that will run on a PC and >> strip the illegal charachters from file and folder names? >> >> >>
>>>> I support a smallish Win 2000 domain with about 30 Mac >>>> users. We are in the process of trying to get the users >>>> to all make SMB connections to our file servers, so we >>>> can do away with SFM altogether. Unfortunately, the users >>>> have at least a decade of being accustomed to naming >>>> their files with characters that work fine on Macs, but >>>> no so well on Windows. It's pretty clear that they are >>>> going to have to go through their folders and rename >>>> files with illegal characters. >>>> >>>> What's the best way to do this?

by **Robert S. Clayton II** » Thu, 05 May 2005 19:39:10 GMT

OK, you lost me ... First off, what is AFP? I simply setup shares using
FileSharing for Mac on my server. Appletalk is enabled on the server to
allow initial connection through the chooser, but TCP/IP is the primary
protocol used.

Second, Are you saying that AFP solves the filenaming issues?

>> >>>I looked at the Mac2fat program and it looks pretty cool, but it has to >>>be run from the Mac side. In our environment, only the 2 comapny owners >>>use Macs, the rest of us have pc's and all management and real work is >>>done on the pc side, but the principles still create files. I have >>>tried to get them to name files without using certian characters, but >>>they just dont seem to get it. They probably will not be very helpful >>>running this program to solve our problem. >>> >>>Dows anyone know of an equivalent program that will run on a PC and >>>strip the illegal charachters from file and folder names? >>> >>> >>>
>>> >>>>I support a smallish Win 2000 domain with about 30 Mac >>>>users. We are in the process of trying to get the users >>>>to all make SMB connections to our file servers, so we >>>>can do away with SFM altogether. Unfortunately, the users >>>>have at least a decade of being accustomed to naming >>>>their files with characters that work fine on Macs, but >>>>no so well on Windows. It's pretty clear that they are >>>>going to have to go through their folders and rename >>>>files with illegal characters. >>>> >>>>What's the best way to do this? >> >> >>

by JL » Thu, 05 May 2005 21:04:07 GMT

Sorry I was responding to Jim Seifert [MSFT]

He answered my question and find the solution. AFS is a file protocol over
TCP IP to connect to windows server. Yes it takes care of filenames
translation. It was the connection system used by OS9.

Try from the finder to go-->connect server....-->AFP://servername or ip

Follow Jim Seifert [MSFT] instructions to my answer

Thanks
"Robert S. Clayton II" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > escribien el mensaje
>> OK, you lost me ... First off, what is AFP? I simply setup shares using >> FileSharing for Mac on my server. Appletalk is enabled on the server to >> allow initial connection through the chooser, but TCP/IP is the primary >> protocol used. >> >> Second, Are you saying that AFP solves the filenaming issues? >>
>>>> Perfect! I can connect and move files AFP is the solution! Although I
have a >>>> little permissions problems but it's nothing important. >>>> >>>> Now we found two problems AFP OSX disconnections problems vs a W2003 and >>>> people who is copying cd's comunnicate me that the OsX seems to run more >>>> slowly than copying by SMB protocol >>>> >>>> Thank You Very Much!!!!!

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