[linux-cifs-client] cifs mounted home directory problems

[Steve French]

Kenneth MacDonald wrote:

>It's Novell's Evolution email (groupware) client.  It creates lots of
>files with : in the name.  It seems it turns /'s into _'s as I have
>lots of
>~/evolution/config/et-expanded-imap:__username at hostname_mailbox_folder
>type filenames.
>
>I found bug http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16016 closed a
>couple of years ago with a "it's a filesystem problem".
>
>It seems the filename is sanitised by
>gal/util/e-util.c:e_filename_make_safe(), which leaves colons in.  I
>haven't dug deep enough to know whether it would be easy or hard to
>migrate to filenames without colons.
>
>The majority of our users home directories are on Windows servers so
>"fixing" samba isn't sufficient for us unfortunately.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kenny.
>
>  
>
I may be able to do something more natural on the cifs to Windows side 
by creating a stream off a fake file (in your case e.g. named "ba") - 
perhaps by leveraging reparse points again  (hopefully ba would not turn 
out to be a filename collision or a collision with an existing 
directory) with the "real name" embedded in a stream or EA - still would 
not help the case of  readdir not listing the whole filename (and 
incorrectly pretending that a file ba exists)

Now I am getting curious how this gets mangled on the Windows Services 
for Unix when the Linux NFS client tries to create such a file on 
Windows server.