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In article <5c8005$65c@eve.enteract.com> pschuman@interserv.com (Phil Schuman) writes:
>From: pschuman@interserv.com (Phil Schuman)
>Subject: Re: NDS tree name displayed wrong
>Date: 23 Jan 1997 15:27:01 GMT

>In article <5c6q4u$l3f@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, hbae@primenet.com says...
>>
>>pschuman@interserv.com (Phil Schuman) writes:
>>>we have a Novell 4.1 IPX system with a tree name of:  SYMONS_CORP
>>>at least, this is what is displayed on the DSMERGE screen.
>>>       which is the only place I can think of to see the name,
>>>       as NWADMIN does not show it...
>>>however - 
>>>when I bring up NWPOPUP on a WIN3.1 client,
>>>the 'tree' has a name of 'SYMONS CORP' - - no underscore
>>>I'll have to check and see what WIN95 shows...
>>>any ideas on who is right - ??
>>
>>Both.  "_" and spaces are equivalent.  "_" are used as fillers.  I don't
>>like spaces so I don't use them.  Down the road... you'll run into
>>problems somewhere!
>>
>>
>interesting - 
>here is the added piece that confused me - when using the NWPOPUP
>in Win 3.1x to get logged in 
>(again, I have not looked at the Win95 stations)

>        one of the trees = SYMONS_CORP  displayed as  SYMONS CORP

>                  server = SYMONS_PROD  displayed as  SYMONS_PROD

>so - the tree is NOT displaying the 'underscore' but the server is ???

According to Hughes and Thomas in "Netware 4.1 networks", a tree name may
comprise A-Z (uppercase only) 0-9, '-' and '_', and it cannot start or end in
an underscore or contain more than one adjacent underscore. So the actual
tree name will be SYMONS_CORP, but for whatever reason NWPOPUP is
replacing '_' with a space. Both spaces and underscores may be used in NDS
object names, but if you create an object in bindery mode with an underscore
in the name, the object appears in NDS with a space instead.

John