On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:46:14PM +0100, Marko Bozikovic wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a strange problem with samba. The problem is with linux filenames > ending with a space and opening these files in Windows. > > We have a piece of Windows software that accesses some files on a Samba share. > These files are name something like: "B0ANA30AN001 XQ50 " (without the > quotes). > > Older linux system is SuSE with samba 2.2.5. Our Windows application replaces > spaces in filenames with '!' (i.e. "B0ANA30AN001 XQ50 " is mapped into > "B0ANA30AN001!XQ50!"), and this works fine with samba 2.2.5. > > However, new SuSE system has samba 3.0.7-5 installed and this does not work > anymore. I've tried fiddling with samba configuration, but without success. > > Does anyone have an idea how to make this work? Renaming files on linux is not > an option. Ideal soulution would be to configure samba 3 to work the way samba > 2 works on our older system.
The problem is a name ending in a space isn't a valid Windows filename. We learned that between Samba2 -> Samba3 - so we now mangle it. If we don't mangle it Windows apps fail against such filenames. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
