This has been identified as a problem as the Samba server unable to serve up files with an embedded colon. A fix has been put in place in Samba version 3.3.3. Bob --bs
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Robert Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > No, that didn't work either. > It turns out that several other applications are using reserved characters > in filenames that they use within their respective .<app config dir> within > the home directory. This now explains all of the other problems that I had > when I migrated to using Samba shares for my home directory. Here is a list > of applications that I found that are using the colon ":" character in > configuration files in my home directory: > Evolution > Wine > Picasa (via wine) > VNC > Opera > Pulse Audio > Nautilus > Rhythmbox (if your track name has a colon) > Possibly many others. > I will repost to the Samba mailing list using a more dire subject like > "Samba home shares breaks many applications" > In the meantime I have reverted back to using NFS for my home shares until > I can sort this out further. > Thanks for your help. > Bob > --bs > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:35 PM, DanKegel <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Jun 22, 1:24 pm, Robert Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I mount the home share under Ubuntu using pam_mount.so when I log in. >> Here >> > is the pam_mount.conf.xml snippet: >> > <volume fstype="cifs" server="san01" path="%(USER)" mountpoint="~" >> > options="soft,nomapchars" /> >> >> Aha. Try mapchars instead of nomapchars. >> - Dan >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Robert W. Smith > BISLink Internet Service > -- Robert W. Smith BISLink Internet Service --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
