hello, i have some trouble to configure my samba file-server. i must configure a backup server, for an other main-file-server. The "main-file-server" is a blackbox-server, without any terminal access. the main-server is used by some printer-servers querry. the filenames in the main-server shows like: "smb://123.123.123.123/sharename/a file\name.txt" in words: i need all special chars for useing as filename. in bash i have no problems creating a file with a backslash: #> touch "a\\test.txt" #> ls a\test.txt #> but i can not see the file from remote with a MAC. (Windows has problems to handle this files, but the MACos can read and write this special files on the main-server, but not on the samba backup-server) How can i make it workable, with filenames with special chars like "\" (backslash) in the name ? PS: Sorry for my bad english. best regards, Daniel S. some config-data: >> the smb.conf [global] dos charset = CP850 unix charset = UTF-8 display charset = LOCALE workgroup = mshome server string = FileServer log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 security = user encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = no idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 template shell = /bin/false winbind use default domain = no preexec = /pos/pos_user_allowed.sh %u %I preexec close = Yes ; shares: [Eingang] comment = work incomming path = /var/raid5/Eingang admin users = fileadmin writeable = yes create mask = 0775 directory mask = 0775 >> the used mountpoint #mount /dev/sda1 on /var/raid5 type ext3 (rw,iocharset=utf8) >> the used samba version root@fileserver:/home/admin# smbd -V Version 3.0.22 >> the used kernel root@fileserver:/home/admin# uname -a Linux fileserver 2.6.15-26-server #1 SMP Fri Jul 7 20:32:10 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux >> my locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL=