Samba problems with file xcopy

Steven Stern sds-email-list at mindspring.com
Wed Jan 14 22:16:21 UTC 2004


On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:10:05 -0500, "M.Hockings" <veeshooter at hockings.net>
wrote:

>dalen wrote:
>
>> M.Hockings wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to do some quick backups from a Win2K laptop to a Fedora 
>>> Core 1 desktop but it ain't working.  The backups are just a bunch of 
>>> xcopy's. Most of them run fine but two fail and I don't understand 
>>> why.  It appears that xcopy is attempting to create directories in 
>>> both cases.  When I run the backup targeting a Win98 desktop there is 
>>> no problem.  Any ideas as to what the problem might be?


When you get down to the actual point where it's failing, how long is the
fully qualified name of the file? I just ran into a problem on a W2K box when
a file plus path went to some ridiculous length.
--
   Steve
   





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