Try setting this in the share section in smb.conf mangled names = No
Bill Evans -----Original Message----- From: samba-bounces+bevans=fhcrc....@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces+bevans=fhcrc....@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Kaleb Harper Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:03 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] linux -> windows special characters in filenames problems 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
