Greetings.
I have a Windows share mounted via Samba. I recently tried to rename some
files; the destination filenames had some high-bit characters. The
renaming had some completely unexpected consequences; the new filenames
now contain the full pathname (including backslashes), plus other illegal
characters (colons). The files can no longer be accessed or modified,
either from the remote GNU/Linux or on the Windows 2000 machine itself.
GNU/Linux gives me the error "No such file or directory", and the
Windows
machine "Die Quellendatei oder vom Quelldatentr?ger kann nicht gelesen
werden" (The source file or device cannot be read).
It seems to me that Samba should not allow the creation of illegal
filenames, but perhaps there's no way for it to know. So is this a bug?
If so, I'll file a report. Regardless, is there any way I can rename the
files to something proper?
Here's what I did to cause the mangled names:
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ ls
(01) Miranda.mp3 (05) Tjet.mp3 (09) Hritibjorn.mp3 (13)
Myrinandar.mp3
(02) Skrid.mp3 (06) Laekning.mp3 (10) Sokkar.mp3
(03) Krid.mp3 (07) Drek Lek.mp3 (11) Med Tek.mp3
(04) Iprottir.mp3 (08) Beri Beri.mp3 (12) Getekkisofid.mp3
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv \(01\)\ Miranda.mp3 "01
- Miranda.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv \(02\)\ Skrid.mp3 "02 -
Skri?.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv *03* "03 -
Kr??.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv *04* "04 -
??r?ttir.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv *05* "05 -
Tjet.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv *06* "06 -
L?kning.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv *07* "07 -
Drek-Lek.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv *08* "08 -
Beri-Beri.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv *09* "09 -
Hv?tibj?rn.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv *10* "10 -
Sokkar.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv *11* "11 -
Me?-Tek.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv *12* "12 - Get Ekki
Sofi?.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ mv *13* "13 - M?rin
Andar.mp3"
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ ls
01 - Miranda.mp3 10 - Sokkar.mp3
03 - Kr??.mp3 Tappi T?karrass\Miranda\02 - Skri:00f0.mp3
05 - Tjet.mp3 Tappi T?karrass\Miranda\04 - :00cd:00fer?ttir.mp3
06 - L?kning.mp3 Tappi T?karrass\Miranda\11 - Me:00f0-Tek.mp3
07 - Drek-Lek.mp3 Tappi T?karrass\Miranda\12 - Get Ekki Sofi:00f0.mp3
08 - Beri-Beri.mp3 Tappi T?karrass\Miranda\13 - M:00fdrin Andar.mp3
09 - Hv?tibj?rn.mp3
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$ cat Tappi\
T?karrass\\Miranda\\02\ -\ Skri\:00f0.mp3
cat: Tappi T?karrass\Miranda\02 - Skri:00f0.mp3: No such file or directory
[psy@port-3108:/mnt/M/Tappi T?karrass/Miranda]$
Regards,
Tristan
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