Article ID: 102471
Article Last Modified on 8/8/2001
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
This article was previously published under Q102471
You can replicate directories or files from a Windows NT NTFS volume to an OS/2 (with LAN Manager 2.x) FAT volume if the filenames meet FAT style naming conventions. The same is true for OS/2 as long as the filenames meet OS/2 HPFS style naming conventions.
Directories or files that do not meet the FAT naming convention (8.3), cannot be replicated from a Windows NT Advanced Server NTFS file system volume to an MS OS/2 LAN Manager 2.x FAT volume.
Directories or files can be replicated from a Windows NT Advanced Server NTFS volume to an MS OS/2 LAN Manager 2.x HPFS volume; however, the names of the directories or files must meet the HPFS conventions.
HPFS filenames must meet the following conventions:
- Names can be up to 254 characters.
- Paths and filenames can together be up to 259 characters long.
- Blank spaces and periods can occur anywhere in the file or directory name.
- The following characters can be used in naming HPFS files:
[ ] , + = ;
- The following characters are not currently allowed:
< > : " / \ | * ? &
- You can use uppercase, lowercase, or mixed case.
NTFS filenames must meet the following conventions:
- Names can be up to 255 characters long.
- The following characters are not currently allowed:
? " / \ < > * | :
NOTE: Windows NT Advanced Server can function as both an import and export replication server. Standard Windows NT can function as only an import server. MS OS/2 LAN Manager can function as both an import and an export server. You can also export from an OS/2 LAN Manager server to a Windows NT workstation.
For more information on replication, query on the following words here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
replication and overview and nt
For information on file naming conventions in the different Windows NT file systems, query on the following key words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
FAT and HPFS and NTFS and NAME
Additional query words: prodnt
Keywords: kbother KB102471
