On Tue 2009-11-03 14:07:37 UTC-0600, Adam Vande More (amvandemore at gmail.com) wrote: > windows path's have alternate eg c:\Test~1 Yes, files and paths may all have an MS-DOS 8.3 equivalent (I think this option can be disabled in NTFS), however Windows SMB shares do not. "\\host\My Documents" is valid, but not "\\host\MYDOCU~1".