[Samba] linux -> windows special characters in filenames problems

[Evans, Bill]

Try setting this in the share section in smb.conf

mangled names = No



Bill Evans


-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces+bevans=fhcrc.org at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-bounces+bevans=fhcrc.org at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
Kaleb Harper
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:03 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] linux -> windows special characters in filenames
problems

I'm running Samba 3.32 on my linux server to share files with the
windows
computers on the network. My problem is that windows doesn't support
some
special characters in filenames, like ' : ', that linux has no problem
with.
So something (not sure if it's Samba or windows) is mangling
directory/file
names containing that character into 8.3 names, which makes it very
difficult to know from windows what's in the directories; I'm having to
open
each directory to see the contents, which is quite an annoyance. Here's
a
couple of examples of how it's mangling directory names:


'this: is a test'    is getting turned into        'THUKO5~M'
'this: is another test'        is getting turned into        'TPYQ1X~Y'


Since I suspect there's not an easy way to get windows to understand the
' :
' and various other characters that it probably doesn't understand
properly,
I was hoping there was a way to change the mangling to something more
readable. I don't care if it removes the ' : ' completely, or changes it
into some other character, I just want to be rid of the 8.3 names. I'm
hoping that it's something that can be done from Samba so I don't have
to
reconfigure several windows computers, but I'll do whatever it takes if
I
have to :)

I appreciate any help you all can give me.
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