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I'm running Samba 3.32 on my linux server to share files with the windows computers on the network. My problem is that windows doesn't support some special characters in filenames, like ' : ', that linux has no problem with. So something (not sure if it's Samba or windows) is mangling directory/file names containing that character into 8.3 names, which makes it very difficult

...the timeout-value. A max-retry-count-commandline-option would be helpfull in this situation. When i would be able to set for example --max-retry=2, people would only have to wait ~9 seconds before the next rsync-mirror is tried. I hope this option could be included, if possible. With regards, Reinder Cuperus

I''ve encountered a perplexing problem whilst following along the demo app in the "Agile Web Development with Rails" book. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is a brief time line of my tale of woe:- 0. Been programming (business apps) and designing/building DBs for two decades - but new to both Ruby and Rails (so I apologise in advance if I''ve made some