File Name changes across Samba

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 02:27:17 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:33 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 03/24/2009 01:56 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
>>
>>> So here's the question: anyone know why the '?' in the file name would
>>> cause samba to change to 'FYL228~4.EML'?
>>
>> Not really, but it sounds like some quirk in a 8.3
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename) algorithm.  The SAMBA list
>> (https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba) might give you a more
>> definitive answer.
>>
>
> Thanks. I'll have a look & see what I can find out. This took me a bit
> by surprise as it's the first such file name that I've left as is with
> all the spaces and the '?' mark.

I've seen similar sharing Mac created files - they've got slashes or
colons in them and Samba mangles 'em like that.

Brian




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