invalid file names

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don't know if this is the right group for this but here goes. I have a win2k
std edition member server basically it is just a file and print server. i
have 1 user that has been storing files for years (these files are attorney
coresponses) he has been storing them with invalid file names. i can not copy
them, rename them move them or any other them with them (does that make
sense?) Anyway i need to do something with these files because i am trying to
use a program to copy all files from that server to a stand by server for
protection but the program keeps bombing out on me because of these files.
I've tried going to a command prompt i break down into the structure see the
files try to rename them and it tells me can not find the files specified. I
have even tried excluding these files from the copy but for some reason it
still bombs.
Anybody got a solution to the problem I'm having?

TIA
 
This group is about Active Directory which is the Domain Controller
functionality and by directory they mean LDAP directory not file system
directory. I am not sure where best to go to get this question answered,
look for a file system group or security or the generic Windows Server
groups.

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Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


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No crap JOE thanks for your snappy answer I know this is Ad not FS but i was
hoping maybe someone could point me to an FS newsgroup. what MS doesn't think
anything is wrong with thier crappy file system? where they don't need to put
a news group up for it.
oh buy the way JOE i know what LDAP and DC functionality is
Steven Haskell
MCSE NT4,2000,2003 and CCNA
Again thanks for your snappy crappy answer
 
That is worse than the normal crew who post filesystem questions here...
You apparently think you know what you are talking about and did it anyway.

I don't think you were hoping someone could point you at a filesystem
group at all, or if you did, you have a very poor way of expressing
yourself.

Also, I would wonder why you didn't post your claims to fame in previous
message?


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Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available---

http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm
 
Hi

huchhhhh....



So many hostility...

Please guys take it easy, as our good friend Jorge de Almeida Pinto would
say... hold your horses ... relax....



Hi Steven Haskell, it seems that you're really nervous, after all you're an
MCSE NT4,2000,2003, CCNA, PPTUYO, XPTO,HHHDGF, THEBD, HHSGDT, AJJJDTEG, (as
that mean anything...)and you can't solve a simple FS problem....



Any way, for the news group in question I think that this is the one that
you are looking for:

microsoft.public.win2000.file_system



I hope that the information above helps you

Good Luck
Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator
 
another thing

the only one that can annoy Joe it's me, with debates about Urgent
Replication, Urgent queuing, etc... :).

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I hope that the information above helps you

Good Luck
Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator
 
Actually i solved it without any of your braineacs help. third party software
handles file names far better that MS or should i say ms. by the way no one
is nervous. just disgusted with your mighty that thou attitudes
 
great...

I glad I coul help
Best Luck to you to

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I hope that the information above helps you

Good Luck
Jorge Silva
MCSA
Systems Administrator
 
You mean handled it better than the native tools that you used. You may
be surprised to learn that MS did the work, not the third party
software, the third party software asked the OS to do something in a
different way than what the default GUI (probably explorer) you used
did. Of course, you probably knew that and just said it wrong again so
you could whine some more. :)


--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available---

http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm
 
Check the file permissions. My guess is that the permissions are set
to the user that created the files and no one else.
From the command line you can use the 'CALCS' commeand to change the
Click to expand...
permissions. I had to use this when a files permissions became
corrupt. It was the only way I could regain access to the file. I
think you will need to have Admin privledges to run the command on
other users files.

- Ryan


CACLS - Displays or modifies access control lists (ACLs) of files.
 
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