[linux-cifs-client] RE: Longnames (was problems with cifs)

[Naidu Bollineni]

I don't see mount.cifs.c and mount.cifs.8 updated about mapchars, and
nomapchars options.

Is mount.cifs.c still having version 1.5 or if there is a 
later version available?

Naidu Bollineni
Senior Member Technical Staff
Kazeon Systems
naidu at kazeon.com
www.kazeon.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve French [mailto:smfltc at us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:12 PM
> To: Naidu Bollineni
> Cc: linux-cifs-client at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: Longnames (was problems with cifs)
> 
> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 13:12, Naidu Bollineni wrote:
> > The filenames do have <, > characters in them.
> > With mapping the illegal characters (by ORing 0xFF00 to the
character),
> > is it possible for server to return the true name at all, if the
client
> > says it can handle such things?
> 
> Yes. If the "mapchars" mount option is used, the reserved characters
> (except slash) will be mapped going to/from the server, allowing you
to
> create files with such characters in the filename and see them in ls,
> stat etc.
> 
> >
> > The servers are SAMBA and Netapp.
> >
> > With SAMBA I have one more issue - it does not return all 5K files.
It
> > returns only fewer files for both XP(1206) and CIFS VFS(only 1198).
And
> > the result between XP and CIFS VFS is not same too. I see one file
in
> > CIFS VFS that is absent in XP result, while 6 files in XP that are
> > missing in CIFS VFS. This is an older version of SAMBA 2.2.7 - I
guess
> > mangling algorithm was broken in prior ones I haven't searched
> > databases. I will see if I can update to the more recent ones.
> >
> > I don't see this issue with Netapp boxes.
> >
> 
> Files are missing from the Samba 2.2.7 listing, but the complete list
is
> returned from NetApp?  I am not aware of any bug with Samba 2.2.7 in
> this regard but will run some quick tests.