Hi
Got a call from a customer who has a mixed OSX and MS shop. They are having issues with a new fileserver box i installed for them. All seems well but when they copy files with long names onto the box it fails with
"Filename too long" or something like that (i'm relying on what the customer is saying to me)
They are using a G5 with Panther i believe to so this so anyone seen this before as i never have and i have setup many mixed shops in the past.
thanks!
Could you provide more information? How long are the filenames? Have you tested to see how long is too long? is this using cifs or smb for transfers etc?
-- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety'' Benjamin Franklin 1775
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 16:10 +0000, Tom Brown wrote:
---- One would think so...
a lot of symbols in filenames cause hell...
/?*&%$#@! will cause all sorts of headaches and of course Macintosh users are used to typing anything including 'option' chars and 'control' chars in filenames.
Tell you users that the following is acceptable in filenames
Letters A-Z and a-z Numbers 0-0 Dashes - Underscores _ Periods . Commas ,
Anything else, you can't be certain is usable by users on other OS's, will properly be backed up, can be moved/renamed by various utilities or simply not function.
Typically I would install netatalk package for Macintosh users (I think current is 2.03) and that requires compiling appletalk module separately or using kernel from CentOS Plus repository for AppleTalk but if the Mac users are all Panther or newer, you might be able to forget AppleTalk completely and just provide the AFP over TCP which is what Netatalk will get you.
Craig
Craig White wrote:
Though the only forbidden chars in filenames are \0 and / on unix systems.
Ralph
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 09:57 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
---- and the only forbidden on a Mac is : but Windows has a few more forbidden characters and the OP was using Mac's with samba server. Windows also chomps a name that ends with a space but Macintosh won't and those files are untouchable to Windows users but this becoming a universe when all are welcomed and their are some things that make it easier for us all to do the Rodney King thing and get along. You'd be surprised how many Macintosh users end their file names with a space.
Craig