dealing with usernames containing whitespace

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Jan 31 14:31:01 GMT 2007


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Raymond,

> What about Win users that put "_" in the file name?

This has nothing to do with file names.  Only
usernames translated via name2sid() and sid2name().

> I have trained "most" of my users to not put spaces
> and other punctuation chars in file names.  I'd not
> like to explain to those kind souls (who actually
> listen to me) why their "_"s keep disappearing.
> 
> What about using a colon, which I believe is disallowed
> in Windows, but allowed in Unix?

I think your on a different topic.





cheers, jerry
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