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
>
> thanks :)
>
You might be able to use the "mangled map" configuration parameter. The
documentation isn't very clear whether or not you can replace something
with a null or not, but might work using double-quotes e.g. "".
HTH
--
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
it is a collectivist myth.
There are only individual citizens
with individual wills
and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
"A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
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