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Date:      Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:00:15 +0300
From:      Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mount_smbfs file name problem
Message-ID:  <20051213080015.GD46065@sysadm.stc>
In-Reply-To: <200512121710.jBCHA1Zj068104@whoweb.com>
References:  <200512121710.jBCHA1Zj068104@whoweb.com>

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On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:10:01PM -0500, Incoming Mail List wrote:
> 
> I've got a problem with file names containing ":" and "?" characters when
> mounted via mount_smbfs.  I have two FBSD machines running SAMBA.  Machine-1
> mounts a file system from Machine-2 using mount_smbfs().  The ls() command
> converts a file name such as XX:YY to something like X~Y.  If I run tar()
> to backup XX:YY, it reports an error (tar: X~Y: no such file or directory).
AFAIK ':' in filenames _will_ cause problems on Windows. So I dont see
any reason share files with ':' via Samba



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