dots in directory names of shares on ODS-5 disks
John E. Malmberg
wb8tyw at qsl.net
Sat Sep 25 23:21:01 GMT 2004
Jeffrey Coffield wrote:
> I have a customer who wants to put dots in a directory name. Since the
> share is on an ODS-5 disk, this is possible for VMS but Samba 2.2.8 does
> not seem to follow the VMS convention of using a ^ in front of a dot.
The ^ convention only applies to filenames in VMS format of
DEV:[DIR]FILE.EXT.
When the file is in UNIX format of /dev/dir/file.ext, no "^" should be used.
> Has anyone looked in to this? If not I may attempt to patch the source
> code.
I have not looked to see if it works on SAMBA 2.2.8. So if it does not
work, then yes, you may need to attempt to patch the source code.
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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