Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== WHS and a Macintosh ====== I was making a copy some WHS server folders so that I could take a small section of the filesystem with me on holiday (for reference). However half way through the copy I got an error dialog informing me that the copy could not access the source disk. WTF? Investing I found that some of the files and directories has been created on the WHS server using Samba from a Macintosh. These had **trailing spaces in their file names**. Win32 will not allow this via the UI however samba subverts this API. See cause 6: * http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320081 * http://www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10328 The solution was to SMB mount this filesystem onto any old Linux box, or the original Mac, and rename the directories and files appropriately. <code bash> mkdir /cheese smbmount //cheese/Users /cheese </code> {{tag>WHS MacOSX}} blog/whs_and_a_macintosh.txt Last modified: 2009/11/27 17:54by 127.0.0.1