[Samba] filename problem

Bernd Wölfel bernd.woelfel at techpilot.net
Fri Nov 15 12:09:01 GMT 2002


correct me if i am wrong but " is no allowed character within a filename
under windows

hope that helps

bernd
> 
>   I got problem with filenames. Some info on my configuration
> 	Samba 2.2.6
> 	client code page=852
> 	character set=ISO8859-2
> 
> 
>   When serving files with " character, example:
> 
> 	user on "server" (H).lnk
> 
> 
> (standard link to home drive). Windows 2000 sees something
> like
> 
> 	user~x%
> 
> It is even worse when such file is located in user profile, 
> which makes 
> it impossible to save user profile to samba server.
> Coping is possible only from windows to samba (filename is preserved) 
> but coping back fails besause windows see different filename.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 	Mirek
> 
> 
> 	
> 





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