RE: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka.\and /)

2004-09-22 Thread Mark C. Casey
server solution. (hell that's cheaper than a normal Mac tower) Mark -Original Message- From: Craig White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 September 2004 18:45 To: Mark C. Casey Subject: RE: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka.\and /) On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 09:03

RE: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka.\and /)

2004-09-22 Thread Simon Hobson
Mark C. Casey wrote: We _cannot_ go about renaming files, for a number of reasons.. the primary being some of the files are technically not ours to alter without a clients permission (names and all) and you don't understand just how many files there are. There are quite probably thousands of

Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka.\and /)

2004-09-22 Thread rruegner
Hi, i total agree with you, using a mac server, or and educate the users will be the only solution which will work now and in the future. If it such important to store this ugly named stuff on a fileserver costs will rise for sure, but costs shouldnt be the main problem if you plan to setup a

RE: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka.\and /)

2004-09-22 Thread Mark C. Casey
to write to multiple tapes or dvds. Thanks for all the help Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of rruegner Sent: 22 September 2004 10:10 To: Simon Hobson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes

Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \ and /)

2004-09-21 Thread rruegner
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

RE: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \ and /)

2004-09-21 Thread Mark C. Casey
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

Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \ and /)

2004-09-21 Thread Simon Hobson
rruegner wrote: 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 Except that the Mac uses neither (internally it

RE: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \and /)

2004-09-21 Thread Mark C. Casey
I'm still looking but is it possible to use mangled maps? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Hobson Sent: 21 September 2004 15:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka

Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \ and /)

2004-09-21 Thread rruegner
: 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

Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \ and /)

2004-09-21 Thread rruegner
Sorry Simon, for sure the users does what their os allows them to do, but that musnt be named as inteligent in anyway. Building filenames which are not compatibel between varias oses is simply brainbugged, in my proffesional setups, i never gave support to users which worked so.My oppinion is ,

RE: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \and /)

2004-09-21 Thread Mark C. Casey
To: Simon Hobson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \and /) Sorry Simon, for sure the users does what their os allows them to do, but that musnt be named as inteligent in anyway. Building filenames which are not compatibel between varias oses

Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \ and /)

2004-09-21 Thread rruegner
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

RE: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \ and /)

2004-09-21 Thread Mark C. Casey
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

RE: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \and /)

2004-09-21 Thread Mark C. Casey
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark C. Casey Sent: 21 September 2004 17:10 To: rruegner Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \and /) They use a mixture of OS 9.x (primary Mac OS they use) and 10.x. So NFS is probably out of the question

Re: [Samba] Filename problem (filenames containing slashes aka. \and /)

2004-09-21 Thread rruegner
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

Re: [Samba] filename problem

2002-11-16 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 22:58, Mirek Hankus wrote: I got problem with filenames. Some info on my configuration Samba 2.2.6 client code page=852 character set=ISO8859-2 When serving files with character, example: user on server (H).lnk (standard link to

RE: [Samba] filename problem

2002-11-15 Thread Bernd Wölfel
correct me if i am wrong but is no allowed character within a filename under windows hope that helps bernd I got problem with filenames. Some info on my configuration Samba 2.2.6 client code page=852 character set=ISO8859-2 When serving files with character,

Re: [Samba] filename problem

2002-11-15 Thread Mirek Hankus
Problem is that Windows creates such file automatically. Steps to create such file. 1. mount your home directory under h: 2. open "my computer" and drag h: drive  to your desktop. 3. now you have file with " character, which can be copied to samba, but not from samba to windows. Mirek

RE: [Samba] filename problem

2002-11-15 Thread Bernd Wölfel
strange... just tried it with servers win2k,samba 2.2.3a, samba 2.2.6 and clients 2kpro sp3, xp sp1 (all german edition) under my computer I see the natwork drive as blabla on server xyz(z) but as soon as i drag the share to the desktop the charcters are automagically removed my smb.conf says

RE: [Samba] filename problem

2002-11-15 Thread Bernd Wölfel
strange... just tried it with servers win2k,samba 2.2.3a, samba 2.2.6 and clients 2kpro sp3, xp sp1 (all german edition) under my computer I see the natwork drive as blabla on server xyz(z) but as soon as i drag the share to the desktop the charcters are automagically removed my smb.conf says

Re: [Samba] filename problem

2002-11-15 Thread Mirek Hankus
On Win2k sp3 Polish and XP Polish " are preserved when dragging drive to desktop, so I've got big problem. Have you tried to create a file with " on server (directly in shell), and see how client see it ??? Mirek Bernd Wlfel wrote: strange... just tried it with servers win2k,samba

RE: [Samba] filename problem

2002-11-15 Thread Bernd Wölfel
alright.. just tried it with 2.2.3a and 2.2.6 i created a file test.txt with vi \test\.txt, the file shows up correctly within the shell as test.txt when i look under windows (2k sp3 and xp sp1 both german) the file shows up as TEST~AO.TXT same on samba 2.2.3a and 2.2.6 (see the filename is

Re: [Samba] filename problem

2002-11-15 Thread Mirek Hankus
I can't turn character encoding off right now (too many users are using this server), but in my opinion if you created file named: "test".txt you should see it in the same way in windows. Windows in Polish editions allow to create files with " characters. You can store, and use them from

RE: [Samba] filename problem

2002-11-15 Thread Bernd Wölfel
yes, could be a bug, maybe someone else could check it too? I am far to inexperienced to judge whether or not samba has a bug... just changed my regional settings and input settings to polish but i am still not allowed to create a file seems like you need the polish edition of windows to do