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2010 Mar 07
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Illegal characters in filename?
...open files, but all of the names are shown in
the 8.3 format and are almost unreadable. I discovered that the
filenames in question have full colons (:) in them, and this is
illegal for Windows clients. Windows itself won't let you create a
file with an invalid filename.
I have listings like:
T7UFO1~9
--TAHX6K~4.txt
--TAHX6K~B.ods
etc.
I was browsing around in smb.conf's man page looking for a way for
these files to at least be readable. Is there a way to map all of the
invalid characters in Windows that linux can use so they simply appear
as a hyphen (or another character?)
It would be...