Cross Empire Data Migration missing characters (utf8?)

Hi. We are ready to migrate over 10000 homedirectorys from our novell/netware plattform to Windows 2008R2.
I use Storage manager 3.0.3.9 with novell client 2 SP2 for windows server 2008R2.
Netware 6.5 SP7 on Source systems.
When i migrate homedirs i lose all in my files and foldernames.
If i do a copy instead with my novell client in windows explorer on the same server i got complete names. So it must be something in the Migration phase?
Any clues?
Rgrds
Stefan

Stefan,
Send an email with a runtime config to storagemanager at novell.com. We will take a look.
Thanks,
NSM Development
>>> Brillko<[email protected]> 4/13/2012 7:36 AM >>>
Hi. We are ready to migrate over 10000 homedirectorys from our
novell/netware plattform to Windows 2008R2.
I use Storage manager 3.0.3.9 with novell client 2 SP2 for windows
server 2008R2.
Netware 6.5 SP7 on Source systems.
When i migrate homedirs i lose all åäö in my files and foldernames.
If i do a copy instead with my novell client in windows explorer on the
same server i got complete names. So it must be something in the
Migration phase?
Any clues?
Rgrds
Stefan
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