I had a weird problem today that brought to light an issue that I didn't realize was happening on my samba servers. I had a windows user save a file to a samba share with an "em dash" character in the file name (em dash is unicode U+2014). The same user tried to find the file on another computer, a linux client using smbfs to access the same share and browsing with Nautilus, was unable to find the file.
Doing a little digging, I found that going to a command line and doing an 'ls' of the directory with the file produced an error message. The error message was: ls: cannot access FooFileName?.txt: No such file or directory Where the "em dash" was replaced by a question mark. Windows clients can see the file just fine, it looks fine on the server, and it looks fine when browsing the directory through nautilus' smbclient, and the ssh/sftp client. It's only when the directory is mounted via smbfs or cifs that it causes problems. I am using samba version 3.4.7 (sorry it's not more up to date, it's on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). If anyone can help me figure out why this is possibly happening, or how to point me towards a solution. I would really appreciate it. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
