TRanslation of Linux filenames with a colon (:)

[Mark Langham]

Chris,

Thanks for your reply. 
In actual fact my real problem is the inability of copying files containing
a colon from the linux box to the NT box using NT explorer. The file is
copied but the name given consists only of the characters following the
colon. e.g abc:def when copied becomes def
I have tried all manner of things including what you suggested but to no
avail.

I welcome any further suggestions.

Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Watt [mailto:cnww at chebucto.ns.ca]
Sent: Friday, 13 October 2000 15:12
To: samba at samba.org
Cc: Mark Langham
Subject: Re: TRanslation of Linux filenames with a colon (:)


At 12:27 PM 10/13/00 +1300, Mark Langham wrote:
>Please,
>
>
>Does anyone out there know how to have Windows Explorer display Linux
>filenames which contain a colon (:)?

AFAIK Explorer is a slightly braindead program and is not able to handle
the idea of ":\|<>*?" in a file name under any conditions. What you can do
is use name mangling on the Samba end of things, I've never tried this
particular filter, but I would expect that something like:

mangled map = (*:* **)

Would work. Play around with this option a bit (on a Read Only share) and
you should be able to get the effect you're looking for.

You can also use "veto files" to not display them at all (if all you're
concerned about is getting rid of error messages), or possibly "mangled
names" for more generic filename conversion. A good start would be to look
in the smb.conf man page for the word "mangle" :)
Hope this is what you were looking for.

On this general subject, can anyone tell me the correct syntax for adding
multiple "mangled map" replacement rules to a single share?
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