samba - Nov 2005 - Samba filename spaces problem

Hi all,

I have a strange problem with samba. The problem is with linux filenames
ending with a space and opening these files in Windows.

We have a piece of Windows software that accesses some files on a Samba share.
These files are name something like: "B0ANA30AN001 XQ50 " (without the
quotes).

Older linux system is SuSE with samba 2.2.5. Our Windows application replaces
spaces in filenames with '!' (i.e. "B0ANA30AN001 XQ50 " is
mapped into
"B0ANA30AN001!XQ50!"), and this works fine with samba 2.2.5.

However, new SuSE system has samba 3.0.7-5 installed and this does not work
anymore. I've tried fiddling with samba configuration, but without success.

Does anyone have an idea how to make this work? Renaming files on linux is not
an option. Ideal soulution would be to configure samba 3 to work the way samba
2 works on our older system.

TIA,
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:46:14PM +0100, Marko Bozikovic
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a strange problem with samba. The problem is with linux filenames
> ending with a space and opening these files in Windows.
> 
> We have a piece of Windows software that accesses some files on a Samba
share.
> These files are name something like: "B0ANA30AN001 XQ50 "
(without the quotes).
> 
> Older linux system is SuSE with samba 2.2.5. Our Windows application
replaces
> spaces in filenames with '!' (i.e. "B0ANA30AN001 XQ50 "
is mapped into
> "B0ANA30AN001!XQ50!"), and this works fine with samba 2.2.5.
> 
> However, new SuSE system has samba 3.0.7-5 installed and this does not work
> anymore. I've tried fiddling with samba configuration, but without
success.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea how to make this work? Renaming files on linux is
not
> an option. Ideal soulution would be to configure samba 3 to work the way
samba
> 2 works on our older system.
The problem is a name ending in a space isn't a valid Windows filename.
We learned that between Samba2 -> Samba3 - so we now mangle it.

If we don't mangle it Windows apps fail against such filenames.

Jeremy.