Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-30 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 08:47:17AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: > > In my world I have two parts of the file system, one containing OS and > > apps that runs short-name standard and the other where the user data > > files are contained that uses long names and sometimes unicode

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Ross Walker wrote: > On Jun 30, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Drew wrote: You must be spoiled by always using GUI tools that present a pick list - no one would ever type all that crap every time they want to access a file. And, you could just as well use u

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-30 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 30, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Drew wrote: >>> You must be spoiled by always using GUI tools that present a pick list - no >>> one >>> would ever type all that crap every time they want to access a file. And, >>> you >>> could just as well use underscores instead of spaces

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Drew wrote: >> You must be spoiled by always using GUI tools that present a pick list - no >> one >> would ever type all that crap every time they want to access a file. And, >> you >> could just as well use underscores instead of spaces and get the same visual >> effect AND still permit natural

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-29 Thread Drew
> You must be spoiled by always using GUI tools that present a pick list - no > one > would ever type all that crap every time they want to access a file.  And, you > could just as well use underscores instead of spaces and get the same visual > effect AND still permit natural 'break on whitespace

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Drew wrote: >>> Samba can serve files with " to Linux clients. It's a Windows >>> limitation not a Samba one. >> Thanks. Well that's a bit sad really... > > I don't if it's so much "sad" as a design choice for NTFS. In > Windows/NTFS one can put spaces in a filename so the " is used as a > delimit

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-29 Thread Drew
>> Samba can serve files with " to Linux clients. It's a Windows >> limitation not a Samba one. > > Thanks. Well that's a bit sad really... I don't if it's so much "sad" as a design choice for NTFS. In Windows/NTFS one can put spaces in a filename so the " is used as a delimiter of sorts on the co

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-28 Thread RedShift
On 06/25/10 22:48, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote: >>> I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to >>> samba, using windows, filesnames with " (double quotes) in them become >>> gibberish on the windows client. >> Since Window

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote: >> >> I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to >> samba, using windows, filesnames with " (double quotes) in them become >> gibberish on the windows client. > > Since Windows doesn't allow double quotes in fi

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-25 Thread Miguel Medalha
> I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to > samba, using windows, filesnames with " (double quotes) in them become > gibberish on the windows client. > Since Windows doesn't allow double quotes in filenames, Samba doesn't either. Single quotes (') are all

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:21 AM, RedShift wrote: > > I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to > samba, using windows, filesnames with " (double quotes) in them become > gibberish on the windows client. > > Under linux I connect to these fileshares using NFS, and

[CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-25 Thread RedShift
Hello I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to samba, using windows, filesnames with " (double quotes) in them become gibberish on the windows client. Under linux I connect to these fileshares using NFS, and the names are correct (I also created them this way)