On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:19:12AM -0700, Evans, Bill wrote: > Environment: > Sun Solaris 5.10 > Samba 3.0.28 (latest SUN supported version) > > We are currently running Totalnet Advanced Server TAS (for cifs > services) but plan to replace this with SAMBA. > > Has anyone see this problem? I am opening a ticket with SUN also. > > from the UNIX command line > > cd /export/userdir/project dir/sub dir /file-excel.xls > ( yes, there are spaces in the directory names and a trailing space " > ".) > > >From a PC client, XP sp2 > > > TAS mapping: \userdir\project dir\sub dir\file-excel.xls > [ note that the PC does not show the trailing space but allows access to > the directory ] > > SAMBA mapping: \userdir\project dir\2D8YHS~L\file-excel.xls > [ note that the PC shows a garbled directory name but allows access to > the directory below] > > At some point we may go to open source to get the latest version, but, > management wants to stay on SUN supported versions if possible.
Trailing spaces are illegal in a Windows name so Samba has to mangle them (it does the same for names with a ':' also). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
