On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, Jeremy Allison <j...@samba.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:30:37AM +0100, Sven Tegethoff wrote: >> >> What we have here is a problem of two incompatible text fields, and >> it does not make a difference if that incompatibility is a filenames >> in a file system or some table in some kind of non-filesytem media >> library. If you can't fix the incompatibility and if you can't >> change the underlying process that generates the data to only create >> names that fit the lowest common denominator all systems can handle, >> the obvious solution is to put in some kind of translation rule. > > The only question is whether that translation rule belongs in Samba :-). > > It used to, but now I think it's better for it to be done externally :-). > > Jeremy. > --
Could there be an add-on module such as samba-enforce-dumb-filefolder-names ? Is Samba written in a modular enough way to add in a filesystem layer? > 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