MSIEXEC problem with long user names

From: Clive Flint (clive@CLIVE.CLARA.NET)
Date: 02/05/03

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From: Clive Flint <clive@CLIVE.CLARA.NET>
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    I look after a site where the user's full name is their username ie
    William Gates as a user would have the username of william.gates . The
    profile path and home dir also reflect this, ie,
    \\server\users\william.gates\profile,
    \\server\users\william.gates\mywork.

    When running a program that was installed by the msiexec program from
    the server for the first time it does the usual _Installing the program_
    = and tries to configure the system. It then falls over saying _error
    1325, william.gates is not a valid = shortfile name_. This seems to
    happen to any user who has a name longer = than 8.3 characters and is
    annoying the users quite a bit = (understatement).

    Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Does anyone else look after sites
    where the username is their full name?

    Clive

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