Hi
We have recently swapped our file server from Server 2003 to Server 2008. Our accounting program has thousands of linked files pointing to the file server directories, but unfortunately these are the shortened 8.3 paths containing tildes:
\\filesvr\work fi~\some fi~\filena~1.pdf
These worked fine on the old server but if I try and browse to them on the new server I get the error:
\\filesvr\work fi~\some fi~\filena~1.pdf refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location.
As there are thousands I don't want to have to go through and manually re-add them - I was wondering if there is a way around this issue? Any settings I can set on the server to get these type of path to work?
Thanks in advance
Ben