[plug] "Illegal" characters in samba mounts?

[Jason Belcher]

Is the file you are creating on a hard disk that is physically in a Windows
box? If it is, Windows won't store the filename with the '?' but just the
DOS filename.

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:15:46AM +1100, Andrew Furey wrote:
> Howdy folks,
> 
> Having just set up a Samba file server on our home
> gateway (yay!), I've noticed that it seems to have the
> problem of not allowing certain characters.
> 
> Elaboration:
> 
> If I create a file "Is this my file?.txt" inside the
> Samba share, it looks fine on that computer's
> filesystem. If I then mount the share on my main Linux
> box, the filename comes up as "ISTHI~UL.TXT".
> 
> It would seem that Samba itself is compensating for
> the fact that Windows can't have characters such as ?
> in its filenames, so it translates them for the share.
> Pity it affects fellow Linux/Samba clients as well...
> 
> This only affects me, because the other two clients
> are Windows boxes which can't use those type of
> filenames anyway. But all the same, it would be nice
> to disable this somehow, maybe as an option to mount
> on the client...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA
> Andrew
> 
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