<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#cccccc" text="#000099"> Hey all,<br> <br> Since the colon is used in Maildir file names and is illegal in Samba/Windows, is there any way to substitute that character for another? I use Samba to do a nightly backup and cannot use NFS.<br> <br> Thanks.<br> </body> </html>
Brad Bateman wrote:> Since the colon is used in Maildir file names and is illegal in > Samba/Windows, is there any way to substitute that character for > another? I use Samba to do a nightly backup and cannot use NFS.Why do you think that you can't have a file named ".foo.bar" on win32 systems? Anyway, what about making an archive (tar, zip,...)? Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20060421/e8b35b86/attachment.bin>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brad Bateman wrote:> Hey all, > > Since the colon is used in Maildir file names and is illegal in > Samba/Windows, is there any way to substitute that character for > another? I use Samba to do a nightly backup and cannot use NFS. > > Thanks.Brad, It's been awhile since I've configured Samba, but I seem to remember you being able to map incompatible filename characters within the samba configuration file. you should check the documentation for details. alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFETD2dE2gsBSKjZHQRAh26AKDe9y1n4lNs4hRUuHoFyxxajdNacgCeNE4+ SBWzN6Mv4aXa7ufFVmOxvcc=Vqvy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----