From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 08:00:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A318B16A41F for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:00:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from igorr@speechpro.com) Received: from speechpro.com (speech-tech-2.ip.PeterStar.net [81.3.190.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D165943D64 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:00:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from igorr@speechpro.com) Received: from sysadm.stc ([192.168.2.26]) by s1.stc with esmtp (Exim 4.53 (FreeBSD)) id 1Em55Z-0003Ou-2i for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:00:45 +0300 Received: from localhost.stc ([127.0.0.1] helo=sysadm.stc) by sysadm.stc with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1Em555-000Ctn-K6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:00:15 +0300 Received: (from igorr@localhost) by sysadm.stc (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) id jBD80FYY049586 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:00:15 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igorr) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:00:15 +0300 From: Igor Robul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051213080015.GD46065@sysadm.stc> References: <200512121710.jBCHA1Zj068104@whoweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512121710.jBCHA1Zj068104@whoweb.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archived: Yes Subject: Re: mount_smbfs file name problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:00:47 -0000 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