Woot! Congratulations on tracking it down. Do you have a bug link?
On Jun 23, 4:21 am, Robert Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> This has been identified as a problem as the Samba server unable to serve up
> files with an embedded colon. A fix has been put in place in Samba version
> 3.3.3.
> Bob
> --bs
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> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Robert Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > No, that didn't work either.
> > It turns out that several other applications are using reserved characters
> > in filenames that they use within their respective .<app config dir> within
> > the home directory. This now explains all of the other problems that I had
> > when I migrated to using Samba shares for my home directory. Here is a list
> > of applications that I found that are using the colon ":" character in
> > configuration files in my home directory:
> > Evolution
> > Wine
> > Picasa (via wine)
> > VNC
> > Opera
> > Pulse Audio
> > Nautilus
> > Rhythmbox (if your track name has a colon)
> > Possibly many others.
> > I will repost to the Samba mailing list using a more dire subject like
> > "Samba home shares breaks many applications"
> > In the meantime I have reverted back to using NFS for my home shares until
> > I can sort this out further.
> > Thanks for your help.
> > Bob
> > --bs
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:35 PM, DanKegel <[email protected]>wrote:
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> >> On Jun 22, 1:24 pm, Robert Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > I mount the home share under Ubuntu using pam_mount.so when I log in.
> >> Here
> >> > is the pam_mount.conf.xml snippet:
> >> > <volume fstype="cifs" server="san01" path="%(USER)" mountpoint="~"
> >> > options="soft,nomapchars" />
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> >> Aha. Try mapchars instead of nomapchars.
> >> - Dan
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> > --
> > Robert W. Smith
> > BISLink Internet Service
>
> --
> Robert W. Smith
> BISLink Internet Service
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