Advice on long name vs short name

[Pierre]

HI all,

Is someone have experience with the use of short name vs long names
over a network?

Is it really easing the load on the network?

I am about to modify a lot of table links to use short name.

Can someone give me his experience on that.

Best regards

Pierre

 

[Pat Hartman]

It is my understanding that separate dlls need to be loaded and called to
process long file names so that would make them slower.

 

[david epsom dot com dot au]

Last I looked, both the long name and the short name are
sent across the network - unless you turn off short names,
or turn off long names, or /use a long name that looks
like a short name/.

On a server system, a name conversion is resolved by
/requesting the conversion from the server/. If you
start with a long name, you have to request the short
name from the server, so that you can have both names
to send back....

However, I have to believe that for an Access database,
sending a few extra message blocks across the network is
going to be trivial.

(The only reason anyone ever really cared about the
extra message blocks is that sometimes there were problems,
and one end forget to send the extra filename, or used
the wrong one, or started by using one filename and then
switched to the other, or .....)

(david)