[Samba] Question marks, asterisks, colons in filenames

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 04:38:13PM -0600, Rob Townley wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:30:37AM +0100, Sven Tegethoff wrote:
> >>
> >> What we have here is a problem of two incompatible text fields, and
> >> it does not make a difference if that incompatibility is a filenames
> >> in a file system or some table in some kind of non-filesytem media
> >> library. If you can't fix the incompatibility and if you can't
> >> change the underlying process that generates the data to only create
> >> names that fit the lowest common denominator all systems can handle,
> >> the obvious solution is to put in some kind of translation rule.
> >
> > The only question is whether that translation rule belongs in Samba :-).
> >
> > It used to, but now I think it's better for it to be done externally :-).
> >
> > Jeremy.
> > --
> 
> 
> Could there be an add-on module such as
> samba-enforce-dumb-filefolder-names ?
> Is Samba written in a modular enough way to add in a filesystem layer?

Samba is *designed* to allow this :-). Check out the VFS
module interface. You'd have to catch all the path-based
calls.

Jeremy.