[Samba] Files missing when using windows XP and samba

Stuart Bailey stuart at linusoft.co.uk
Wed Jul 6 11:03:06 GMT 2005


> The only thins I have noticed is that there are some files which have
> spaces in their names. When viewed on the Unix machines, the spaces are
> intact. If I view them on the Linux box, the spaces appear as '?' -
> obviously, windows would have trouble with this.
> Just waiting to see if changing these spaces to '-' will make any
> difference.
Just for the record, I have renamed the offending files, replacing spaces with 
hyphens. Now all files are visible from the Windows machines.

Stuart.

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