I'm running Samba 3.32 on my linux server to share files with the windows computers on the network. My problem is that windows doesn't support some special characters in filenames, like ' : ', that linux has no problem with. So something (not sure if it's Samba or windows) is mangling directory/file names containing that character into 8.3 names, which makes it very difficult to know from windows what's in the directories; I'm having to open each directory to see the contents, which is quite an annoyance. Here's a couple of examples of how it's mangling directory names:
'this: is a test' is getting turned into 'THUKO5~M' 'this: is another test' is getting turned into 'TPYQ1X~Y' Since I suspect there's not an easy way to get windows to understand the ' : ' and various other characters that it probably doesn't understand properly, I was hoping there was a way to change the mangling to something more readable. I don't care if it removes the ' : ' completely, or changes it into some other character, I just want to be rid of the 8.3 names. I'm hoping that it's something that can be done from Samba so I don't have to reconfigure several windows computers, but I'll do whatever it takes if I have to :) I appreciate any help you all can give me. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
