Fw: Re: [Samba] Cant fetch on Window network due to special characters in filename.

Paul Espinosa pespinosa at sunflowerbroadband.com
Thu Oct 7 13:55:49 GMT 2004



.----[ R K wrote ]----
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|  
|  Hi All,
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|  I am new to this group :) . Please accept my warm regards!
|  
|  While I am trying to access files on Windows share that contains special 
|  names the smbclient fails up as shown below:
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|  Lets say the filename is  Bryan Adams - Let's Make a Night to
|  Remember.mp3
|  
|  I get following error:
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|  Domain=[MYDOMAIN] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
|  
|  NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND opening remote file \\bryan adams\Bryan 
|  Adams - Lets
|  
|  How do I take care of this problem?

Put quotes "" around the file name.  That should take care of it.



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