Having problems with files that have the ':' character

[Lynn Danielson]

Ryan Korock wrote:
> 
> Some of the files on my linux box have the character ':' in their name.
> Viewing them over the network via smb, samba seems to replace the ':' with a '~'.
> 
> The real problem is that these files cannot be copied/moved at all (error messages appear).
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this issue? And is there a fix or workaround?
> (please don't tell me I need to rename all my files ;)  ).

The tilde is the default mangling character which is why your seeing the
translation.  The mangled map parameter might be able to solve your 
problem, but I haven't worked with it enough to be sure.

Lynn Danielson