On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:10:05 -0500, "M.Hockings" <veeshooter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >dalen wrote: > >> M.Hockings wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to do some quick backups from a Win2K laptop to a Fedora >>> Core 1 desktop but it ain't working. The backups are just a bunch of >>> xcopy's. Most of them run fine but two fail and I don't understand >>> why. It appears that xcopy is attempting to create directories in >>> both cases. When I run the backup targeting a Win98 desktop there is >>> no problem. Any ideas as to what the problem might be? When you get down to the actual point where it's failing, how long is the fully qualified name of the file? I just ran into a problem on a W2K box when a file plus path went to some ridiculous length. -- Steve