samba - Jul 2006 - Differnet display of filenames (samba 2.x <-> 3.x)

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Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we have moved our file services from an old samba 2.x (HPUX)
> to a linux box (SuSE SLES 9) running samba 3.x.
>
> Since this switching a couple of files containing ":" is
> no longer displayed correctly. The name is completely
> corrupted. Any hint ?
>
> It's displayed correctly under unix, and long names without
> this character are also display correctly ....
>
The ":" character is not allowed in Windows file names. Rename the
files
to remove the colons and everything should be OK.

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:23:52AM +0200, Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have moved our file services from an old samba 2.x (HPUX)
> to a linux box (SuSE SLES 9) running samba 3.x.
> 
> Since this switching a couple of files containing ":" is
> no longer displayed correctly. The name is completely
> corrupted. Any hint ?
> 
> It's displayed correctly under unix, and long names without
> this character are also display correctly ....
By design. Windows clients can't access such files
anyway, so we mangle them to 8.3 names and display
that.

Jeremy.