I look after a site where the user's full name is their username ie
William Gates as a user would have the username of william.gates . The
profile path and home dir also reflect this, ie,
\\server\users\william.gates\profile,
\\server\users\william.gates\mywork.

When running a program that was installed by the msiexec program from
the server for the first time it does the usual _Installing the program_
= and tries to configure the system. It then falls over saying _error
1325, william.gates is not a valid = shortfile name_. This seems to
happen to any user who has a name longer = than 8.3 characters and is
annoying the users quite a bit = (understatement).

Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Does anyone else look after sites
where the username is their full name?

Clive

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Delivery co-sponsored by TruSecure Corporation
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
TICSA - Anniversary Special - Limited Time

Become TICSA certified for just $221.25 US when you register before 3/31/03
with PROMO "TS0103" at www.2test.com. NO membership fees, certification
good for 2 years. Price for international delivery just $296.25 US, with
this offer. Offer cannot be combined with any other special and expires
3/31/03. Visit www.trusecure.com/ticsa for full details.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]