[Samba] files or directories ending with dots or white spaces on a samba share

[Ahmed RAHAL]

Hi Samba Team  Users,

I recently found THE problem with files ending with a white space or a 
dot.
After searching and finding very few pointers (ok, I do not know that 
much about the smb protocol), I found myself a bit disappointed. (I 
didn't RTFM however, I beg pardon.).
It seems that files ending with whitespaces or dots cannot be correctly 
shared through a windows network.

This popped out whan browsing a samba share from MacOS X.
It amazed me at first, and I supposed there was a good reason. Obviously 
there was.
After testing this a (very little) bit, and for the peace of mind of 
others that may be seeking the anser to this (non-)issue:
If you try to create a file ending with dots on a windows system, the 
dots will disappear ! the operating system forbids creation of such a 
file or directory (silently removing dots and barring space ending 
filenames). Therefore, the problem that I found with 
dot-ending-filenames on my linux box cannot exist in the windows world !

The same applies to space-ending-filenames.
Samba, solved the problem by showing a strange and random-looking 
filename while browsing the samba share.
This being a non-problem, I just wanted to sort it out for anyone too 
lazy to RTFM ;)


If I happen to be wrong here, please, correct this :)

May Samba live long  prosper .\\//

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[Samba] smbclient nmblookup not behaving the same way

[Ahmed RAHAL]

Hello Samba list,

I lately noticed a strange behaviour :
nmblookup MyPC
returns the name  IP of the host
using MyPC as netbios name.
but,
smbclient -L MyPC
never connects as it returns an incoherent IP
(some fuzzy public IP nothing to with the local
network).

this is a fresh 2.2.3a install on RedHat 7.3.

I could workaround this problem by inserting
the netbios names into /etc/hosts, some sort
of netbios/hosts resolution getting it straight.
However I wonder why nmblookup gives
the right answer while smbclient can't get it :p

thanks for any suggestion/hint, 'caus I guess
it is just because I ignore the exact way smbclient
resolves netbios names.

Ahmed RAHAL.

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