wel ... just look here whats allowed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename
The discussion of * or ? etc, in naming is bad should not be done here. I had the same with my collection, what is did was, add a new options in my tagging. artist and albumartist. where artist is the person whos singing it, and the albumartist is the person/groep who released it, and i dont use strang ( not allowed ) characters in the albumartist. thats how you can fix it pretty easy. and yes, i have "some" special characters in filenames, but only the allowed ones. and no, i dont have problems with windows and unix with these files. Louis >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >Van: rob.town...@gmail.com >[mailto:samba-boun...@lists.samba.org] Namens Rob Townley >Verzonden: dinsdag 19 februari 2013 0:34 >Aan: Jonathan Buzzard >CC: samba@lists.samba.org >Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Question marks, asterisks, colons in filenames > >On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Jonathan Buzzard ><jonat...@buzzard.me.uk> wrote: >> On 18/02/13 19:16, Ray wrote: >>> >>> 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. >>> >> >> Anyone putting "special" characters in file names has a >special place in >> hell reserved for them. It is plain stupid, just don't do it. >> >> Personally I would name them all wall01.mp3, wall02.mp3 etc. >and add ID3 >> tags to them. Any decent graphical file manager and/or music >player will >> display the tag information. Stop abusing the filename to >store metadata >> when there is a standard for storing that metadata in the file. >> >> JAB. >> >> -- >> Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) >buzzard.me.uk >> Fife, United Kingdom. >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > >JAB, have you ever pulled down a website with wget? Have you ever >looked at www.dropbox.com/bad_files_check which shows all the native >files on your Linux box that will never make it to windows. > >Is there some kind of regular expression transliterate functionality? >A way to force windows only characters for samba shares? > >Ray, on more than one occasion swat has documentation that is >nowhere else. >-- >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