samba - Apr 2001 - Having problems with files that have the ':' character

Ryan Korock wrote:
> 
> Some of the files on my linux box have the character ':' in their
name.
> Viewing them over the network via smb, samba seems to replace the
':' with a '~'.
> 
> The real problem is that these files cannot be copied/moved at all (error
messages appear).
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this issue? And is there a fix or workaround?
> (please don't tell me I need to rename all my files ;)  ).
The tilde is the default mangling character which is why your seeing the
translation.  The mangled map parameter might be able to solve your 
problem, but I haven't worked with it enough to be sure.

Lynn Danielson

Some of the files on my linux box have the character ':' in their name.
Viewing them over the network via smb, samba seems to replace the ':'
with a '~'.

The real problem is that these files cannot be copied/moved at all (error
messages appear).

Has anyone else encountered this issue? And is there a fix or workaround?
(please don't tell me I need to rename all my files ;)  ).


Much Appreciated,
-Ryan

I am running v2.0.5a on a redhat box with kernel 2.2.12-20, and connecting to it
via a win2000 server box.

> Some of the files on my linux box have the character ':' in their
name.
Viewing them over the network via smb, samba seems to replace the ':'
with a
'~'.
>
> The real problem is that these files cannot be copied/moved at all (error
messages appear).
>
> Has anyone else encountered this issue? And is there a fix or workaround?
(please don't tell me I need to rename all my files ;)  ).
I'm not going to tell you you have to rename your files, but I am going to
let you know that the ':' character is not a valid windows filename
character, so I think you can deduce what you need from that, unless there
is a workaround in samba for this.

Hello Ryan,
Believe the problem is in the name mangling, and the 'illegal' character
":";  What happens is that because of samba's name mangling
capability, it
will display the file named 
(for instance) hello:1.txt  as HELLO~6E.TXT.  So far so good.  Problem comes
in copying it;
Samba gets the request (NT Create&X) to create the file HELLO~6E.TXT;
because of the ~ character it invokes its name UN mangling routines, and
comes up with the original name
"hello:1.txt"; OOPS - this is an illegal name for NT Create & X,
and part of
the code that handles the reply to an NT Create & X checks filenames for
illegal characters (which : IS, for a pc client)  so the attempt to create
the copy fails.
BTW, if you try to create a file named "hello:1.txt" using windows
explorer,
it will fail to do so as well on a local disk, telling you a list of
characters that are illegal in filenames...

NOW - how do you work aound this???
I would suggest that you don't even try.  If you have files that need to be
accessed regularly from PC's, you should ensure that your filenaming
convention on the Linux box for whatever application is generating these
files conforms to the naming convention the pc's must use.

Sorry,
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Korock [mailto:r.korock@f5.com]
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 12:35 PM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Having problems with files that have the ':' character


Some of the files on my linux box have the character ':' in their name.
Viewing them over the network via smb, samba seems to replace the ':'
with a
'~'. 

The real problem is that these files cannot be copied/moved at all (error
messages appear).

Has anyone else encountered this issue? And is there a fix or workaround?
(please don't tell me I need to rename all my files ;)  ).


Much Appreciated,
-Ryan

I am running v2.0.5a on a redhat box with kernel 2.2.12-20, and connecting
to it via a win2000 server box.



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Hi!
> Some of the files on my linux box have the character ':' in their
name.
> Viewing them over the network via smb, samba seems to replace the
':' with
> a '~'.
I having that very same problem.
I run a network of abot 100 computers, half win98 half Macs.
Well it seems that Macs in particular cause that problem and when it comes to 
share documents between computers using a common share, somtimes it's a
mess.

Since it seems there is no remedy to recover from the character ':' is
there
a way to prevent Samba to use it?

Thanx.

M?rio Gamito
pt is for Portugal