On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:01:36AM -0500, Andy Theuninck wrote: > I'm seeing something fairly odd where XP clients show some - but not > nearly all -filenames as a random jumble of characters. The files are > still perfectly accessible; if I tell windows manually what the file > type is, they'll open. > > I don't think it's a character set issue. Affected filenames contain > alphanumeric characters (a-zA-z, no accents or anything outside > ASCII), periods, and hyphens. It doesn't seem like any sort of > client-side caching. I tried a couple different client machines that > have never accessed the share before and they see the same incorrect > names. This seems to happen only in directories with a large number of > files (500+), but that could be coincidental. The problem always > affects a handful of files in the directory rather than all files. > > The odd file names all look like "AH6I10~Z". Besides the tilde always > being 2nd to last, the other characters don't have any consistent > mapping to the actual file name.
Oh how soon we forget :-). Google for DOS 8.3 filename limitation :-). Remember there are some filenames (containing a : character etc.) that Windows can't use. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
