[Samba] Folder name mangled

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 01:54:35PM +0000, Chris Hastie wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Within a folder that forms one of my shares is a folder named
> "MCMXC_a.D.". At least, that is what I see when I run `ls` at the
> terminal, or even `ls -b` or `ls -q`. That is also what I see from
> another Linux machine using cifs to mount the share. However, from
> Windows clients this particular folder appears as "M6HK2P~F". This
> share is also mounted as external storage in an ownCloud
> installation using, I believe, libsmbclient-php5. ownCloud also
> presents the name as "M6HK2P~F".
> 
> Since there are no non-ascii characters in the original folder name
> I'm somewhat baffled as to what could be causing this
> transformation. Has anyone any ideas?

It's the '.' at the end of the filename that's causing
Samba to mangle the name. Names ending in dot are illegal
under Windows.