On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 04:38:13PM -0600, Rob Townley wrote: > On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, Jeremy Allison <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:30:37AM +0100, Sven Tegethoff wrote: > >> > >> What we have here is a problem of two incompatible text fields, and > >> it does not make a difference if that incompatibility is a filenames > >> in a file system or some table in some kind of non-filesytem media > >> library. If you can't fix the incompatibility and if you can't > >> change the underlying process that generates the data to only create > >> names that fit the lowest common denominator all systems can handle, > >> the obvious solution is to put in some kind of translation rule. > > > > The only question is whether that translation rule belongs in Samba :-). > > > > It used to, but now I think it's better for it to be done externally :-). > > > > Jeremy. > > -- > > > Could there be an add-on module such as > samba-enforce-dumb-filefolder-names ? > Is Samba written in a modular enough way to add in a filesystem layer?
Samba is *designed* to allow this :-). Check out the VFS module interface. You'd have to catch all the path-based calls. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
