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NetStorage limited to 8 char names?
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| AlaN D 2005-10-26, 5:45 pm |
| NetWare OES SP 1
Login script contains: map root h:=%HOME_DIRECTORY
I can login to NetStorage as admin or any other 8 character name and get
my H: drive mapped as "DriveH@ADMIN" and it works.
If the user's login name is more than 8 characters, it shows up as
"DriveH@%LOGIN_NAME" on the left and if I click on it I get "Bad request!
Your browser (or proxy) sent a request that this server could not
understand."
Please tell me we're not limited to 8 characters!
AlaN
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| Peter vdW 2005-10-26, 5:45 pm |
| Hi Alan,
The 8 character limitation is with the %HOME_DIRECTORY attribute, nothing to
do with Netstorage. With more than 8 characters you have to use %CN instead.
For example:
IF <webaccess>="1" THEN
map root H:=\\server\volume\users\%CN
ELSE
map root H:=%HOME_DIRECTORY
END
More info on Netstorage loginscript processing:
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/s...i?/10068983.htm
With NW6.5 you can disable processing the Homedirectory (not the CN, as it
is a regular mapping) through iManger or NSadmin.
Peter
> Login script contains: map root h:=%HOME_DIRECTORY
>
> I can login to NetStorage as admin or any other 8 character name and get
> my H: drive mapped as "DriveH@ADMIN" and it works.
>
> If the user's login name is more than 8 characters, it shows up as
> "DriveH@%LOGIN_NAME" on the left and if I click on it I get "Bad request!
> Your browser (or proxy) sent a request that this server could not
> understand."
>
> Please tell me we're not limited to 8 characters!
>
> AlaN
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| AlaN D 2005-10-26, 5:45 pm |
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Ohhhh....that's going to be a problem. We use File System Factory to
populate the %Home_dir attribute because the users, even within the same
OU, have their directories in different places.
Perhaps it's time to force them to move all their home directories to the
same location. Will still have to futz with login scripts quite a bit
then. Grrrrr.
I'm confused, then. If the limitation is with the %HOME_DIRECTORY
attribute, then how is it currently mapping the drive when the user's
login name is more than 8?
AlaN
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:20:05 +0000, Peter vdW wrote:
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> Hi Alan,
>
> The 8 character limitation is with the %HOME_DIRECTORY attribute, nothing
> to do with Netstorage. With more than 8 characters you have to use %CN
> instead. For example:
>
> IF <webaccess>="1" THEN
> map root H:=\\server\volume\users\%CN
> ELSE
> map root H:=%HOME_DIRECTORY
> END
>
> More info on Netstorage loginscript processing:
> http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/s...i?/10068983.htm With
> NW6.5 you can disable processing the Homedirectory (not the CN, as it is a
> regular mapping) through iManger or NSadmin.
>
> Peter
>
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| Andy Thompson (SysOp) 2005-10-26, 5:45 pm |
| > I'm confused, then. If the limitation is with the %HOME_DIRECTORY
> attribute, then how is it currently mapping the drive when the user's
> login name is more than 8?
It's actually the $login_name attribute that is limited to 8 chars.
home_directory is ok with long names. I map to a long directory name in
netstorage with home_directory without any problems.
What is the actual value in the home directory attribute for your user
objects?
-andy
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| Peter vdW 2005-10-26, 5:45 pm |
| > It's actually the $login_name attribute that is limited to 8 chars.
> home_directory is ok with long names.
**blush**
Need sleep...
Peter
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| Peter vdW 2005-10-26, 5:45 pm |
| Alan,
Andy is right, I was wrong .
These Homedir values, do they contain spaces or extended characters ?
Peter
> Ohhhh....that's going to be a problem. We use File System Factory to
> populate the %Home_dir attribute because the users, even within the same
> OU, have their directories in different places.
>
> Perhaps it's time to force them to move all their home directories to the
> same location. Will still have to futz with login scripts quite a bit
> then. Grrrrr.
>
> I'm confused, then. If the limitation is with the %HOME_DIRECTORY
> attribute, then how is it currently mapping the drive when the user's
> login name is more than 8?
>
> AlaN
>
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:20:05 +0000, Peter vdW wrote:
>
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| AlaN D 2005-10-26, 5:45 pm |
| Nope.
vol1:/users/dms/teachers/sstorkson is the first I tested.
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:08:18 +0000, Peter vdW wrote:
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> Alan,
>
> Andy is right, I was wrong .
> These Homedir values, do they contain spaces or extended characters ?
>
> Peter
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>
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| AlaN D 2005-10-26, 5:45 pm |
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vol1:/users/dms/teachers/sstorkson is the first I tested.
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:19:44 +0000, Andy Thompson (SysOp) wrote:
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> It's actually the $login_name attribute that is limited to 8 chars.
> home_directory is ok with long names. I map to a long directory name in
> netstorage with home_directory without any problems.
>
> What is the actual value in the home directory attribute for your user
> objects?
>
> -andy
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| Andy Thompson (SysOp) 2005-10-28, 5:46 pm |
| AlaN D wrote:
> vol1:/users/dms/teachers/sstorkson is the first I tested.
>
Can you setup a test that just goes to vol1:user/sstorkson? Wondering
if it's something with netstorage processing a long overall path.
-andy
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| Peter vdW 2005-10-28, 5:46 pm |
| Alan,
I still don't get it. When users have a HOME_DIRECTORY attribute they get a
folder Home@Treename by default. Does this work for long names or did you
disable this feature in nsadmin ?
Peter
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