Destination does not support long names

Forgive my lack of technical details, but I'm a developer

My boss is trying to drag a folder from his desktop (local profile) to a
mapped drive on a SAN. He's got XP Pro on his box, and I'm guessing the SAN
is either W2K or NT4.

The folder already exists, and has files in it, so we know it doesn't have
illegal characters like : \ etc, but it does contain several words separated
by spaces.

When he attempts the operation, windows says that the destination does not
support long file names. We replaced the spaces with underscores with the
same results.

Copying the same folder (with spaces) to other mapped locations on the SAN
is successful, so I was thinking that perhaps this one "mount point" -- or
whatever it's called, was formatted with some doofus older file system.

Except, I can copy a similar folder to the exact same location that's giving
him problems. So it looks like a client-side issue.

Any other thoughts?


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Mike Labosh, MCSD

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Good morning Mike.
Usually, it's a message related to a wrong filename (invalid characters?).

A test could be to launch the copy from command line (using xcopy) and see
if the copy ends correctly.
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Fabrizio Volpe
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