samba - May 2006 - How to handle special characters in filenames

Hi,

I'm using samba 3.0.21 on a FC 4 box.
I'm connecting to Win XP pro clients.

Using smbclient I can get and put files which contain '%' in file names.

Using libsmbclient smbc_open this is not possible. I get 'No such  
file or directory Errno::ENOENT' error.

Any ideas how to solve this.
I guess it has to do with escaping special characters in smb urls but  
I haven't found the correct way of doing this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Henrik

On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:19:01 +0200
Henrik Zagerholm <henke@mac.se> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using samba 3.0.21 on a FC 4 box.
> I'm connecting to Win XP pro clients.
> 
> Using smbclient I can get and put files which contain '%' in file
names.
> 
> Using libsmbclient smbc_open this is not possible. I get 'No such  
> file or directory Errno::ENOENT' error.
> 
> Any ideas how to solve this.
> I guess it has to do with escaping special characters in smb urls but  
> I haven't found the correct way of doing this.
Try standard url escapes %<hexcode>. For example if you have '%'
in your
path like "p%th" then 0x25 the hexcode so you need "p%25th".

Mike