FPNW Doesn't Convert the Long File Names Correctly

• Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you use Windows 95 or Microsoft Client for NetWare Networks to connect to an FPNW volume that contains directories with long names on a computer running Windows NT 4.0 Server with Service Pack 2 and FPNW, the clients will not display the 4.1 directory list correctly.

Below is a sample of a "dir" (directory command) issued at the command prompt. You can see that the first directory with fewer than 9 characters is used in place of the 8.3 directory name for every long directory.

Volume in drive I is TESTVOL Directory of I:

WWWROOT        <DIR>        01-10-97  4:19p 123456789
WWWROOT        <DIR>        01-10-97  4:25p Document1
WWWROOT        <DIR>        01-13-97  8:57a wwwroot
DIR1     TXT            37  01-13-97  9:52a dir1.txt
         1 file(s)             37 bytes
         3 dir(s)   1,999,896,576 bytes free

CAUSE

This is a regression caused by Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 2.

RESOLUTION

Install the updated Fpnwsrv.sys file.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

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