[Samba] Question marks, asterisks, colons in filenames

[Rob Townley]

On Thursday, February 21, 2013, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 04:38:13PM -0600, Rob Townley wrote:
>> On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:30:37AM +0100, Sven Tegethoff wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What we have here is a problem of two incompatible text fields, and
>> >> it does not make a difference if that incompatibility is a filenames
>> >> in a file system or some table in some kind of non-filesytem media
>> >> library. If you can't fix the incompatibility and if you can't
>> >> change the underlying process that generates the data to only create
>> >> names that fit the lowest common denominator all systems can handle,
>> >> the obvious solution is to put in some kind of translation rule.
>> >
>> > The only question is whether that translation rule belongs in Samba
:-).
>> >
>> > It used to, but now I think it's better for it to be done externally
:-).
>> >
>> > Jeremy.
>> > --
>>
>>
>> Could there be an add-on module such as
>> samba-enforce-dumb-filefolder-names ?
>> Is Samba written in a modular enough way to add in a filesystem layer?
>
> Samba is *designed* to allow this :-). Check out the VFS
> module interface. You'd have to catch all the path-based
> calls.
>
> Jeremy.
>