Art Alexion on 11 Nov 2004 14:28:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Extended characters over Samba


George Gallen wrote:

oops, that's filename mangling, not munging.
here is a link to my problem from before:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/1997-September/004095.html
George


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    *Sent:* Wednesday, November 10, 2004 3:30 PM
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    *Subject:* RE: [PLUG] Extended characters over Samba

    this is an issue with Samba and Linux, regardless
    of the age of the OS's.

    I had this issue 5 years ago with Samba, and it
    still exists today. Except my problem was with "*"
    imbedded in the filename.

    I was able to modify SAMBA to at least show the
    filename correctly, but I could never get it to
    properly transmit it. (It kept expanding it on
    the linux side, instead of keeping it as a *).

    There is a list of characters, and possibly it's
    in the configuration file, for file munging that
    will show which characters will not work properly.

    <>George

    >Art Alexion wrote:
    >
    >> I use é a lot in my file and directory.  Each of the
    Win98/fat32 and
    >> Linux/ext3 machines doesn't have a problem with files and
    >directories
    >> created by the local machine with these letters, but when
    >accessing a
    >> share that contains a file or directory with that name, both
    choke,
    >> substituting a box or a ? for the accented character.
    >>
    >> Is there a solution that aids compatibility?

Sounds like I'm stuck with your solution #1 -- don't use the offending characters in file/directory names. I can probably live with that as I have tried to make sure that no files/directories have embedded spaces either.

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