Subject: Re: Long Filenames Redux, U who know more than I
From: Lutz Michaelsen (lutz.michaelsen@easi.de)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 03:21:29 EDT
Chip Mefford wrote:
>
> So Ron, Derrick, Mattew and lurkers;
>
> I am in a pretty good place here. I am rolling
> my little linux samba/netatalk file server out
> into production and I get the chance to author
> a company edict for future file nameing convention
> amongst my mac and win folks.
>
> So, who has a good file nameing rule?
>
To avoid any possible problem, I advised all my users to use only:
* A-Z, a-z, 0-9, dot . and _
* NO special characters like *, /, &, #, ...
* NO blanks
* Each file should have an extension (=>AppleVolumes.system) to detect the file
type on Unix and Windows.
* Each filename should have less than 32 characters (incl. extension)
* NO german Umlaute for filenames, like ä, ü, ...
Keep in mind, that the users can create filenames like "ls", "cd", "cat", ....
This could cause some funny results while working on Unix ... ;-)
Take care, that samba supports lower case/upper case. Check the filename
configuration of Windows.
It works fine for our little network with Linux, various Unixe,
Windows95/98/2000, and Mac 8.x/9.0.x
Regards,
Lutz
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