On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 07:51, Entelin wrote:
> I have a client with about 1TB worth of files stored on an old mac
> server which is being replaced by a small samba cluster. Unfortunately
> the users were very liberal when naming their files naming them things
> such as.
> 
> *wh at/e\v er!.tiff
> 
> lol, so of course samba doesnt like that very much and gives me a
> "invalid filename" error, so the question is, is there a way for samba
> to rename that incoming filename just taking out the invalid chars?
> 
> resulting in something valid like
> 
> wh atev er.tiff
> 
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there are perl scripts for Mac Perl
or
I purchased a program 'NameCleaner' to do file name cleanup (I think it
was like $25
or
you can install netatalk (apple file server) to get the files on to the
linux server and you can try various utilities on Linux

Craig

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