[Samba] Two Qs: support special chars in filenames and auditing

Günter Kukkukk linux at kukkukk.com
Thu May 27 20:41:28 MDT 2010


Am Freitag 28 Mai 2010 02:22:33 schrieb Grace Chen:
> Hi experts,
> 
> 
> 
> Two hopefully quick questions:
> 
> 
> 
> 1.      If I create files with names with special characters, such as
> 
> ><*:"?\|, on the linux server box, I can see these filenames display
> 
> just fine. But windows client the special characters do not show up
> properly. Is there a option to set? I tried:
> 
>                In [global] section:
> character set = ISO8859-2
> client code page = 852
> 
> 
> 
> It did not work.

*nix _allowed_ filename chars don't match the windows ones:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177506/en-us

So Samba can't deliver them "properly" over to windows.

> 
> 
> 
> 2.      Is there an audit log where it records user's
> access/modification information?
> 
have a look at 'man vfs_full_audit'
or even better:
http://moiristo.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/samba-logging-user-activity/
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Grace
> 
Cheers, Günter


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