[Samba] Mapping characters for non-DOS names under UNIX

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Thu Jan 6 11:44:30 MST 2011


On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:55:52PM +0800, tao wang wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> As known, samba can mapping non-DOS names under UNIX to DOS-compatible names
> by using some HASH/HASH2 algorithm. But is there any way we can define a
> character mapping tables by self, not using HASH? such as: (just a sample)
> 
> character mapping table:
> Unix        Windows
> "     <------->    a
> *     <------->    b
> /     <------->    c
> :     <------->    d
> <    <------->    e
> >    <------->    f
> ?    <------->    g
> \    <-------->    h
> |    <-------->    i
> 
> then a filename '***' on Unix will be mapped to 'bbb' on Windows... and so
> on.

So what would bbb map to?  If both exist on unix, how would windows tell
you which of *** and bbb to open?

-- 
Len Sorensen


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