[Samba] Mapping a network drive to a Windows Drive Letter

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Wed Jan 17 10:48:15 GMT 2007


On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:37:18AM +0000, stuart.jamieson at dstintl.com wrote:
> Some developers edit files using "windows editors"  and when they then copy
> them to the  Windows Drive Letter  which is mapped to a Unix machine, the
> resultant file  is full of  ^M  characters..... build breaks..... and so on
> 
> Until now we have been telling users to run "dos2unix"  beforehand,  but
> somebody told me  that "Samba"  can handle this if properly configured ?
> 
> Is this possible ?    If so can somebody please help me  ?

No, sorry, Samba does not do this.

Volker


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