David Collier-Brown wrote:
> Ok, I read this as saying you used the smb mount program
> on Linux to mount the files, and they looked weird.
This is how I mount the shares:
mount -t smbfs //DIGISERVER/ABYSS_I /mnt/abyss_1
> 1) I **think** this is the translation on Linux of characters
> that Macs put in filenames. It looks like the Mac
> created an Icon file which ended in a special character,
> which got displayed as a ?
Well, that's the funny thing. If I look at the file on a Mac, it's
simply those four characters: 'Icon', nothing else. If I look at it on
the Win2K server, it's also those four characters, and it's a hidden
file. I don't know how the translation works on the Linux end. I
suppose someone with more knowledge of how Samba sees those files can
give a better explanation?
> 2) Why the files are all executable I don't know: this
> could be a Mac-ism or the setting of the file to "hidden".
> The latter implies that all the files shown here are
> hidden...
I don't care that they're executable or not. I've always seen SMB
files as executables when I mount a share on a linux box. My concern
here are those translated file named that are causing problems being
read, either through simple 'ls' or 'du' or any other utility.
> Check the path used in the smbmount command: you need to know
> if it's the path to the new Samba 3.0.5 command or the one
> which came with your Linux.
The system's running the following versions:
~> rpm -qa | grep samba
samba-common-3.0.5-2
samba-client-3.0.5-2
samba-3.0.5-2
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