[plug] "Illegal" characters in samba mounts?

[Anthony Jones]

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On Sunday 02 December 2001 23:15, Andrew Furey wrote:
> > 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.
>
> No, both machines are Linux. The filename is stored on
> the disk correctly, it's just not being translated
> through Samba correctly.

This may sound like a stupid question, but why don't you juse use NFS (a.k.a. 
No F***ing Security)? 

> Also, if I then try to (on the client machine) rename
> the translated file to the long version with the ?, it
> says the file already exists. So it looks like it's
> just a display thing more or less, but copying the
> file back from the Samba mount still has the wrong
> name :(

It might be a necessary compatibility issue.  You probably can't open a file 
with a '?' in the file name from Windows so they've made it compatible.  The 
best thing would probably download and compile the latest source and if the 
bug is still in it then report it as a bug (if someone else hasn't already) 
then they know about it and can ignore it.

> Re Craig's point: No, I don't make filenames like "*
> Conditions apply.txt" :)  It's just for this single
> solitary MP3 from one of my albums, which technically
> should have a question mark. I could always leave it
> out, I suppose, but...

This is a problem with MP3's.  The best rule is to have the ID3 tags correct 
with the '?' in it and have a close approximation in the file name.
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