Message-Id: Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:11:53 +0000 From: Matthias Paul To: opendos AT delorie DOT com, paul-ma AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de Subject: Re: help with "invalid password" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk On 97/10/28 00:31:18 Robin asked: >i installed the lite version 7.01 and everything works fine. but >erverytime i try to copy a file from floppy to harddisk i receive the >error "invalid password". >can anyone explain me how i can get rid of this ? If you have not actually used the DR DOS style password protection scheme this indicates corrupted directory entries on either your harddisk (target) or your floppy (source). It is most likely, that you have written the files to floppy on a Windows95 system using long filenames. Since LFN use the directory entries in an rather incompatible way, an OS of the DR DOS family could misinterpret them as passwords, being applied to the files. There are several things you can do: - Try installing Caldera s LONGNAME driver to support long filenames under OpenDOS. - If the problem is located on your floppy, I recomment to run an old version (that is before 1995) of PC-Tools DISKFIX or Norton Utilities Disk Doctor (NDD), which will most probably report currupted info on the disk. Answer Yes to the queries, if these tools shall correct the problem. They will wipe out the wrong cells in the directory entries with zeros and afterwards, DR DOS family OSes are no longer fooled by misinterpreting the entries. -You can do the same manually using a disk editor like Norton s DISKEDIT. Hope this helps, Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------ Matthias Paul eMail: Web: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html