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

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:42:42AM -0700, Naidu Bollineni wrote:
> Unfortunately with widechar formats having 0xF000 in them, it is really
> hard to have a mixed environment like NFS+CIFS.
> 
> With or without mapchars, if the name came from NFS having these
> illegal/special characters, server is sending mangled names to CIFS
> client.
> 
> With mapchars+CIFS I create a file with special characters, but NFSv3
> can't deal with widechars.
> 
> So, if I don't have NFS access, theoretically isn't there any other way
> to see real names from CIFS client?

Not until I fix this in a Samba3 server release (or SVN code).
I'm working on it, sorry.

Jeremy.