Your use of Novell 3.12 raised the possibility that you have not turned on support for Long File Names under that 8 year old operating system . Novell is be refusing to create files (or directories) with longer names.

For instructions about enabling long file names under Novell 3.12, click here.

P.S. You might want to consider moving to a slightly more current server environment.

P.P.S. What functions are you still using in ACCPAC Plus?