[Samba] Question marks, asterisks, colons in filenames

[Günter Kukkukk]

Am Freitag, 22. Februar 2013, 04:18:33 schrieb Günter Kukkukk:
> Am Montag, 18. Februar 2013, 20:16:15 schrieb Ray:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I suppose this question must have been posted a hundred times, but
> > Google brings up nothing useful:
> > 
> > Consider "The Wall" from Pink Floyd in an MP3 collection. There's "In
> > The Flesh.mp3" and "In The Flesh?.mp3" as tracks. Or, another example in
> > an MP3 collection: There's a Band called "Stellar", but there's also a
> > band called "Stellar*". Naming files like this is no problem in Linux.
> > 
> > Now I had the idea of using my files on other computers such as Macs
> > and Windows-boxes, but both Systems have trouble with the characters
> > mentioned above.
> > 
> > My question is how Samba can help me to map these characters to
> > something else so that the files become usable on the Windows/Mac side
> > *without destroying the readability of the filenames entorely*. Hashing
> > into 8.3 random character sequences with "mangled names = yes" is not
> > really an option.
> > 
> > What is the successor of the removed "mangled map" option? I did not
> > find anything in the current man page of smb.conf (5).
> > 
> > I'm running Samba 3.5.10, which is the latest in CentOS 6.3.
> > 
> > Surely there must be some elegant way to fix this? I don't want to
> > rename all my files at the Linux end.
> > 
> > Any help would be very appreciated.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Raimund
> 
> Hi Raimund,
> I guess you were the one to whom i was talking on IRC some days ago.
> I assured you to have a look at the source of VFS vfs_catia.c, because
> we were not able to get it working and it caught my inetrest, too.
> 
> Also there is nearly NO info on the web about the usage of this
> re-written vfs module - the samba man page is useless (only old
> usage info)
> 
> I now found the bug in vfs_catia.c and will push a fix soon.
> See http://pastie.org/6313997
> how it is working. One can specify translations for all
> invalid windows characters \ / : * ? " < > | and even more ones.
> 
> I hope this is the one you were looking for.  :-)
> 
> Cheers, Günter

sorry, just a follow up.
I now used more invalid characters and also tried it with windows.
Linux and samba:
http://pastie.org/6314301

Windows screenshot: http://picpaste.com/pics/vfs_catia-pcvuDc44.1361505596.JPG

Cheers, Günter