[plug] "Illegal" characters in samba mounts?

[Craig Foster]

Do you also give your files names like "*Conditions apply."?

I would have thought that every computer course, beginners computer book,
and computer support annecdote would have touched on wildcards in
filenames. It's bad mojo, just like Microsoft putting ISP Ads in Linux
Magazines... Do'h!!

Regards,

Craig Foster



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Furey [mailto:simpware at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, 2 December 2001 9:16 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] "Illegal" characters in samba mounts?
>
>
> 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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