Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] forbidden characters on pc
From: Vivek (vivek@imaginet.co.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 19 1998 - 11:53:56 EST
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, chris thoen wrote:
> We use a linux fileserver with a mix of macs (netatalk) and pc's
> (Samba).
> Is it possible in netatalk to put some filter in de filenames that can
> be used, so Samba doen't have a problem with deleting files.
> f.i. sometimes the MACS create a file 'Icon\r' (with \r a carriage
> return). For a pc-user , it is impossible to delete a directory
> with such a file.
>
> Does anybody knows a solution for this?
If you know in advance what the troublesome files are going to be, you
could use the
veto files = troublesome name 1/troublesome name 2/etc
and
delete veto files = true
options in Samba. I'm not sure if you can get a \r into the veto files
thing though. Good luck.
-- fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/cortex
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