Microsoft KB Archive/91019

= Characters Lost or Changed and File Access Problems =

Article ID: 91019

Article Last Modified on 10/6/1999

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1

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This article was previously published under Q91019



SYMPTOMS
Because of limitations in the SMB protocol, some file operations between machines with different code pages on the same network may not work correctly. This results in character misinterpretations and file access problems.



CAUSE
The SMB protocol does not have the ability to transmit client code pages to the server.



WORKAROUND
To avoid this problem, make sure all the machines on the network are using the same code page. Because these problems usually result from the use of extended ASCII characters, using standard ASCII characters (ASCII codes less than 128) in filenames can also help.

Additional query words: 3.10 shift symbol garbled denied

Keywords: KB91019

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