They use a mixture of OS 9.x (primary Mac OS they use) and 10.x. So NFS is probably out of the question.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: rruegner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 September 2004 17:04 To: rruegner Cc: Mark C. Casey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \ and /) Hi Mark, as thought about your problem.... did you try nfs or ssh for this file types, as your users use mac os 10 this maybe a possible solution, but i am nearly sure that windows will fail to open it , if your try to catch them afterwards from a win client. but perhaps its a workaround Regards rruegner schrieb: > Hi Mark, > i had this problems too, when i worked with some grafics , > i wrote a bash script which renamed there special filenames every day. > Maybe a guru has an solution for you , but in case of /\ i dont know any > Regards > > Mark C. Casey schrieb: > >> Unfortunately this is something that is extremely important. >> >> There are LOTS of filenames which contain slashes. >> >> Some of these are also customer artwork, meaning we cannot go about >> renaming them either. >> >> Mark >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: rruegner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 21 September 2004 14:50 >> To: Mark C. Casey >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. >> \ and /) >> >> >> Hi Mark, >> as far i know, >> \ / are interpreted as path signs, i am not clear why any software >> should interpret this in another way. >> using special signs as filenames are a bug in user brain not in the >> software of fileservers, whatever you use >> Regards >> >> Mark C. Casey schrieb: >> >>> I'm currently in the process of creating a fileserver so some mac >>> guys at the company I work at can save files as a backup medium. >>> (long story short i'm creating a fileserver running samba 3 with 1TB >>> of storage) >>> >>> However, a lot of the files that they want backed up contain >>> characters that samba refuses to accept (when I try transferring a >>> file to the samba share with say the filename as "test \ test / test" >>> the mac reports that it cannot transfer the file. >>> >>> I've been told there is a way to use UTF8 with Samba 3 so it can >>> accept these, how can I do this? >>> >>> Mark -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
