Re: [PLUG] Extended characters over Samba

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

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
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
>     [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, November 10, 2004 3:30 PM
>     *To:* plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>     *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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