Mac OS X 10.3.7: Long filename truncation: Fixed or not?

Some readers are reporting that the long filename truncation bug which materialized under Mac OS X 10.3.6 reappeared after updating to Mac OS X 10.3.7.

However, the kernel extension previously implicated in this problem, System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare/afpfs.kext was not changed by the update. Many users had the version of this file from Mac OS X 10.3.5 installed under Mac OS X 10.3.6 as a workaround.

The most common solution to this problem, for users accessing files on a system running Mac OS X Server, is to make sure that the server is also upgraded to 10.3.7 (Server edition).

MacFixIt reader Brett writes "I was still having the problem after updating to 10.3.7, UNTIL I realized that my server also needed to be updated as well. Once that was done, the problem went away. I had to make sure that Mac OS X 10.3.7 is on both sides of the connection, if connecting to an AFP server (or at least not 10.3.6 on the server side)."

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