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- From: mike@msc.cornell.edu (Mike Heisler)
- Subject: IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 for OS/2 problems with PCNFS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.181916.26093@msc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:19:16 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- Geoff discusses:
- > Quoth chf@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (charles.h.foster) (in <1992Nov6.140330.29707@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>):
- > #
- > #I am trying to access an OS/2 2.0 NFS server (IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 for OS/2)
- > #from a DOS 5.0 PC running Sun PC-NFS 4.0. I can mount drives from the
- > #OS/2 server, but when I do a dir I get names that look like...
- > #
- > # WINWO~7A <DIR> 04-14-92 9:06a
- > #
- > #when they should look like...
- > #
- > # WINWORD DSK <DIR> 04-14-92 2:06a
- > #
- > #(notice the time stamp is wrong also)
- >
- ....
- >
- > This is because the OS/2 NFS server silently converts all incoming names
- > into uppercase form.
-
- NO. OS/2 accepts mixed case and names the files EXACTLY as you specify
- HOWEVER it will access the file case-insensitive. I can access an os/2
- server with the file NotNow on it as:
- notnow, NOTNOW, Notnow, .....
-
- >
- > #You cannot execute .exe files but you can type autoexec.bat, for example.
- > #You can copy files from DOS to NFS server, but you cannot copy from the
- > #NFS server to DOS (says file not found).
- > #
- > #Can anyone shed some light on this problem. When I called Sun, all I got
- > #was a "we didn't test with that software" answer.
- >
- > We certainly didn't have that combination available when we tested
- > PC-NFS 4.0. I'll check on how things are looking for the next release.
- > There *IS* going to be a NET USE switch (though not a Windows option
- > :-( to allow you to turn off all name mapping on a drive (the server
- > had better be using uppercase 8.3 names, or all bets are off), but from
- > the behaviour that you describe there may be other incompatibilities.
-
- UPPERCASE, I certainly hope not. PC-NFS puts files on our UNIX server
- in lower case. Turning off the mapping to funny character is a good
- idea. However forcing it to uppercase would then break all the files
- we have had out on the server forever. How about a compromise, create
- files in lower case, 8.3, on UNIX side; map to uppercase and truncate to 8.3
- as needed on DOS side. You can't have Foo, foo and FOO in DOS anyway.
-
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-
- Mike Heisler 607-255-7344 mike@msc.cornell.edu
- Materials Science Ctr. 302 Thurston Hall Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853-1503
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- Mike Heisler 607-255-7344 mike@msc.cornell.edu
- Materials Science Ctr. 302 Thurston Hall Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853-1503
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