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Roy Rico
Asked: 2011-02-26 19:24:47 +0800 CST

Samba + file/directories that end with a period

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I have a samba share and it shows a weird filename in windows whenever a file or directory named ends in space or period

If I do 

mkdir temp.

will look like TB5AMV~R in windows.

Is there a fix for this?

UPDATE: my config:

# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too
# many!) most of which are not shown in this example
#
# Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
# is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
# for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you
# may wish to enable
#
# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command "testparm"
# to check that you have not made any basic syntactic errors.
#
#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]

        smb ports = 445
        workgroup = WORKGROUP
        server string =

        # There was a recent security issue in Samba (Feb 5 2010), a claimed
        # zero-day exploit that exploited an insecure default configuration.
        # According to an Ubuntu Forums post on the topic, the "wide links" option
        # now defaults to no.

        follow symlinks = yes
        wide links = yes
        unix extensions = no

        # added by roy for win7 - 2009-09-09
        client ntlmv2 auth = yes

        # added by roy for recycle bin
        vfs object = recycle
        recycle:repository = .RecycleBin
        recycle:keeptree = yes
        recycle:exclude = *.tmp, *~, *.bak

        printcap name = /etc/printcap
        load printers = no

        cups options = raw

        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        max log size = 50

        security = user

        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

        dns proxy = no


#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = yes
   writable = yes

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = no
   guest ok = no
   writable = no
   printable = yes
samba

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Samba doesn't consider temp. to be a valid DOS filename so it is mangling it as per the name mangling rules which defaults to on. You can turn name mangling off by setting

    mangled names = no

    in your smb.conf file followed by restarting samba. Name mangling can be specified as a global or service specific parameter.

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