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Samba and filenames with : or ?

Hello,

I have an HTPC with XBMC, accessing some samba shares from another PC. Both are linux. I cannot access files with "?" or ":" in the name: They are shown as 0 byte an as having no access rights.

They used to work fine some time ago, but I don't know if it was a kernel or samba update which broke this. It's not XBMC related, because Krusader on the sharing machine has the same problems when I access the share as "smb://localhost/...".

I have tried the following in smb.conf:

Code:

  unix extensions = yes

  case sensitive = auto



# Keep file names with : and ? intact

  mangled names=no

I do NOT want filename mangling because I want to see the actual filename and not some 8.3 "garbage" for long filenames.

Is there a possibility to access long filenames with "?" or ":" using samba? Or do I have to use another protocol?

Thanks

Those characters are reserved, so you should not use them in actual filenames
Reserved_characters_and_words

They are allowed in Unix, and both affected machines are (Gentoo) Linux. Also, it worked some time ago. I am not aware of any config changes, other than what I tried to make it work again. However, there have been several updates of every software involved.

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_%28software%29

Quote:

Samba is a free software re-implementation,...... Samba provides file
and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can .......

On a Windows computer the ':' and the '?' are not allowed characters.....