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by jason fitzpatrick 1 view

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HELP!!!!

I have a guy who is trying to get 40 Compaq PC's onto a network and is
getting the following error: "Can't Access This Folder. Path Is Too Long",
from 2 out of the 3 accounts that they use (Group accounts, ex: desktop,
agentdesk,custservicedesk,) the custservicedesk account works perfectly,
users are able to login, and the logon.bat file runs, but with the other 2
accounts the PC freezes with a Windows box stating the error above, and at
that point the user has to logout and log back on to the PC, (the user is
able to run these batch files from the run command when he logs
into the PC
as Administrator) the user has tried to create new dummy accounts but none
of them work, I have checked IQ2000 (no reference) MS Technet (there is a
reference to this error [Q157069]but only on NTFS drives, and the user has
FAT)

Server is running NT4 SP5
Users have Static IP addresses
These PC's are sharing a network with Dell PC's (win NT4 SP 5) and all of
them are working

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by timber

It kinda sounds like a rights issue to me since one account works and the other two do not. I would suggest compareing the accounts at the server level and at the workstation level to see what rights / groups / ect.. are different from the account that works.

by jason fitzpatrick

I found this on technet, the user had the Net Neighbourhood removed, and it seems that this is a known issue..

thanks all

Jay
PSS ID Number: Q168477

by Former member

The PCs and servers are irrelevent here, perhaps if you told us what the login scripts contain and will they be able to log in without the login script?? (Isolate the problem)

by syscokid

Just for fun do a SET command at the command prompt, or look at Control Panel -> System -> Environment for something fishy.

If these accounts work on the Dells but not the Compaqs, there must be something specific to these machines that's causingthe problem.

by figment

I'm just going to throw one out of the ball park here.... but it's entirely possible that the machines that can't login have FAT16 partitioned Harddrives which would limit the "characters" allowed in a directory path... however if you use DiskSpace or DriveSpace or another piece of software to convert the File Allocation Tables on the FAT16 HDs to FAT32 that MAY fix the problem.

If that doesn't work i would then procede to check the user allowences for each account and compair them to the one that actually works and see if there are some descrepencies.

Good luck and good hunting...

Jeremy

by jason fitzpatrick

Jeremey,
There is reference to an issue simmilar to this one in technet but it involves NTFS, FAT32 is not supported under NT, (U are not able to install onto an FAT32 Drive,)
thanks anyway..

Jay

by lukaskadrow

Do you have error messages?, like :
??? Path too long
??? Error cannot delete file: cannot read from source file or disk
??? Cannot delete file: Access is denied
??? There has been a sharing violation.
??? Cannot delete file or folder The file name you specified is not valid or too long. Specify a different file name.
??? The source or destination file may be in use.
??? The file is in use by another program or user.
??? Error Deleting File or Folder
??? Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
??? Error Copying File or Folder.
??? Cannot remove folder.
??? The filename or extension is too long.
??? Path too deep.
??? Destination Path Too Long.
??? Could not find this item.
??? Filename is not valid.
??? The file could not be accessed.
??? The path you entered, is too long. Enter a shorter path.
??? File Name could not be found. Check the spelling of the filename, and verify that the file location is correct.
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