Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] bad Apple filenames for Samba clients
From: Jeff Wiegley (jeff@w3-design.com)
Date: Fri Dec 05 1997 - 17:57:48 EST
Philip S. Wachtel wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I recently posted a question about how to make the use of samba and
> netatalk cleaner by hiding (or veto-ing) the .Apple and Trash and other mac
> stuff. I thank all those that answered. By upgrading Samba and using
> veto, my problem was solved!
>
> Now, second question. Mac users tend to use all kinds of file naming
> conventions that PCs don't read. Is there a way of preventing Macs from
> saving a files with certain characters in the filenames? This would help a
> great deal.
>
> Yet again, I thank you very much!
>
> Philip
We solved this problem the easiest way we could think of:
We are simply spanking any mac user that uses symbols and odd
characters in file names.
Seriously, I think there is some robust configurations for samba that
will handle "bad" filenames a little better but we aren't familiar with
samba enough to pursue that answer any further and it was just easier
to tell the mac peoples to use a more standard naming convention.
- Jeff
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