Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Drew wrote: You must be spoiled by always using GUI tools that present a pick list - no one would ever type all that crap every time they want to access a file. And, you could just as well use underscores instead of spaces and get the same visual effect AND still permit natural 'break on

Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-30 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 30, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Drew wrote: You must be spoiled by always using GUI tools that present a pick list - no one would ever type all that crap every time they want to access a file. And, you could just as well use underscores instead of

Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Ross Walker wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Drew wrote: You must be spoiled by always using GUI tools that present a pick list - no one would ever type all that crap every time they want to access a file. And, you could just as well use

Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-30 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 08:47:17AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Ross Walker wrote: In my world I have two parts of the file system, one containing OS and apps that runs short-name standard and the other where the user data files are contained that uses long names and sometimes unicode names,

Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-29 Thread Drew
Samba can serve files with to Linux clients. It's a Windows limitation not a Samba one. Thanks. Well that's a bit sad really... I don't if it's so much sad as a design choice for NTFS. In Windows/NTFS one can put spaces in a filename so the is used as a delimiter of sorts on the command

Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Drew wrote: Samba can serve files with to Linux clients. It's a Windows limitation not a Samba one. Thanks. Well that's a bit sad really... I don't if it's so much sad as a design choice for NTFS. In Windows/NTFS one can put spaces in a filename so the is used as a delimiter of sorts on

Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-29 Thread Drew
You must be spoiled by always using GUI tools that present a pick list - no one would ever type all that crap every time they want to access a file.  And, you could just as well use underscores instead of spaces and get the same visual effect AND still permit natural 'break on whitespace'

Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-28 Thread RedShift
On 06/25/10 22:48, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Miguel Medalhamiguelmeda...@sapo.pt wrote: I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to samba, using windows, filesnames with (double quotes) in them become gibberish on the windows client.

[CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-25 Thread RedShift
Hello I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to samba, using windows, filesnames with (double quotes) in them become gibberish on the windows client. Under linux I connect to these fileshares using NFS, and the names are correct (I also created them this

Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:21 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to samba, using windows, filesnames with (double quotes) in them become gibberish on the windows client. Under linux I connect to these fileshares

Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-25 Thread Miguel Medalha
I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to samba, using windows, filesnames with (double quotes) in them become gibberish on the windows client. Since Windows doesn't allow double quotes in filenames, Samba doesn't either. Single quotes (') are allowed

Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.pt wrote: I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to samba, using windows, filesnames with (double quotes) in them become gibberish on the windows client. Since Windows doesn't allow double