Hi I'm running Samba (smbd version 3.0.23-1.fc4) on Fedora Core 4. On the fedora machine I have mounted an Windows XP share using mount -t smbfs ... Now, on this share some files have strange names, e.g. '????(Max)(4??-14).txt'. There is no problem opening that file on the XP machine. When using ls on the fedora machine, I enter the path using file name completion (in this case I entered just a '/mnt/tmp/,' and then TAB, then RETURN), but Samba then says that the file doesn't exist, like this (captured with 'script'): [root@myhost tmp]# ls /mnt/tmp/,\,???\(Max\)\(4Ay-14\).txt ls: /mnt/tmp/,???(Max)(4Ay-14).txt: No such file or directory [root@myhost tmp]# If I use ls -l, I get: [root@myhost tmp]# ls -l /mnt/tmp | grep Max -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3762357 Jan 9 2005 ,???(Max)(4Ay-14).txt [root@myhost tmp]# So the file seems to be there, I just can't access it, and not just me, 'rsync' complains when it tries to sync that file saying: [root@myhost tmp]# rsync -av /mnt/tmp /tmp : : file has vanished: "/mnt/tmp/,\#222\#253\#247(Max)(4Ay-14).txt" : : [root@myhost tmp]# Any hints? Jan