Chip Mefford wrote:
>
> So Ron, Derrick, Mattew and lurkers;
>
> I am in a pretty good place here. I am rolling
> my little linux samba/netatalk file server out
> into production and I get the chance to author
> a company edict for future file nameing convention
> amongst my mac and win folks.
>
> So, who has a good file nameing rule?
>
To avoid any possible problem, I advised all my users to use only:
* A-Z, a-z, 0-9, dot . and _
* NO special characters like *, /, &, #, ...
* NO blanks
* Each file should have an extension (=>AppleVolumes.system) to detect the file
type on Unix and Windows.
* Each filename should have less than 32 characters (incl. extension)
* NO german Umlaute for filenames, like �, �, ...
Keep in mind, that the users can create filenames like "ls", "cd", "cat", ....
This could cause some funny results while working on Unix ... ;-)
Take care, that samba supports lower case/upper case. Check the filename
configuration of Windows.
It works fine for our little network with Linux, various Unixe,
Windows95/98/2000, and Mac 8.x/9.0.x
Regards,
Lutz
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