[Samba] Samba filename spaces problem

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:46:14PM +0100, Marko Bozikovic wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a strange problem with samba. The problem is with linux filenames
> ending with a space and opening these files in Windows.
> 
> We have a piece of Windows software that accesses some files on a Samba share.
> These files are name something like: "B0ANA30AN001 XQ50 " (without the quotes).
> 
> Older linux system is SuSE with samba 2.2.5. Our Windows application replaces
> spaces in filenames with '!' (i.e. "B0ANA30AN001 XQ50 " is mapped into
> "B0ANA30AN001!XQ50!"), and this works fine with samba 2.2.5.
> 
> However, new SuSE system has samba 3.0.7-5 installed and this does not work
> anymore. I've tried fiddling with samba configuration, but without success.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea how to make this work? Renaming files on linux is not
> an option. Ideal soulution would be to configure samba 3 to work the way samba
> 2 works on our older system.

The problem is a name ending in a space isn't a valid Windows filename.
We learned that between Samba2 -> Samba3 - so we now mangle it.

If we don't mangle it Windows apps fail against such filenames.

Jeremy.