samba - Dec 2015 - Naming Conventions

Hi all,

I have looked but cannot find if there is a way on a file share to control the
naming convention of files.

I’d like if possible for a SAMBA file share to throw up an error if an end user
tries to name any of their Word / Excel based files (or any files for that
matter) with any of the following:

Tilde 
Number sign 
Percent
Ampersand 
Asterisk 
Braces 
Backslash
Colon 
Angle brackets
Question mark
Slash 
Pipe
Quotation mark

I’m having an issue with Macs connecting to a file share and having an excel
issues and opening files. I’d like to have the end file server add an error
message when users try to name their files with any of the above characters if
possible but I am unable to figure out where to do that. Is there a way to set
this globally in smb.conf or even on a more granular share by share based
configuration?


Thank you,

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David Thompson
david at digitaltransitions.ca

From: David Thompson <david at digitaltransitions.ca>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:30:54 -0500
> I have looked but cannot find if there is a way on a file share to control
the naming convention of files.
> 
> I’d like if possible for a SAMBA file share to throw up an error if an end
user tries to name any of their Word / Excel based files (or any files for that
matter) with any of the following:
> 
> Tilde 
> Number sign 
> Percent
> Ampersand 
> Asterisk 
> Braces 
> Backslash
> Colon 
> Angle brackets
> Question mark
> Slash 
> Pipe
> Quotation mark
Can you try with "veto files"?
You can specify chars that cannnot be included in your filenames.

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