[X Newbies] Mac to Win2000

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 6:16 PM -0500 7/26/03, Steven Rogers wrote:
>I've got a G4 running 10.2.6 on a local net with a couple of Win2000 
>boxes. One has been loaded for a while (not by me) and I can get to 
>it from the mac just by opening the "connect to server" dialog and 
>putting nfs://192.etc.  The other has just been loaded with Win2000 
>and when I try to connect to it with nfs:// the "connecting to 
>server" box just never connects. When I try smb://  I get a password 
>dialog with Workgroup, user, and password, but I always get an error 
>-50 from that.

What's the name of the share? From today's MacFixit:

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Knowledge Base: "Error in user parameter list (-50)"

Apple has posted Knowledge Base article #25532 , explaining what to 
do if the alert, "Error in user parameter list (-50)" appears when 
working with an MS-DOS-formatted volume.

Apple's solution:

"Certain characters that can be used in a Mac OS X filename are not 
allowed in MS-DOS filenames. This can prevent the file from being 
copied, and can occur when a filename contains non-printing ACSII 
characters, or any of these characters: ? /   " | > * [Ed. - See 
today's "Troubleshooting Acrobat Distiller 6.0 report" for another 
instance of filename character incompatibility.]

"Remove these characters from the filenames before copying.

"Alternatively, for a longer-term solution, reformat the volume as 
Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus). Be sure that any important data on the 
volume has been backed up first (after renaming any files with 
characters mentioned above), and that any other computer you will use 
the volume with works with Mac OS Extended format disks.

Apple adds that if the alert appears when you try to change a file, 
try copying it to the computer's hard disk first, then copying it 
back when you are finished.
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