Re: [Samba] Samba and Netatalk Problem

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 15:47, Grieve, Shane wrote:
> I have a large number of Mac clients currently severed by windows NT 4
> servers I am looking to replace the with samba / netatalk the problem I
> have is there are a large number of files that contain forward slashes e.=
g.
> =E2=80=9Ca pages 2/18=E2=80=9D Windows NT translates the / to a 2=EF=80=
=A2 =E2=80=9C 2 with a dot but
> keeps the rest of the file name readable samba mangles the whole file na=
me
> to something like _6HZXL~E I have tried using vfs_cap, vfs_hex
> vfs_netatalk and different codepages including cp932 but still not luck.
> If you look on the linux server fedora core 3 the / is replaced with :2f
> but the rest of the file name is readable. I understand that a / slash is
> not valid but is there a way to keep the rest of the file name readable.

About 5 years ago, when I worked with a macos9 -based company migrating to=
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windows, I ran a macintosh utility to rename files. Among the advantages w=
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the fact that I could add appropriate dot-three extensions based on creator=
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and file type. =20

There are several renamers on this page=20
http://www.macwindows.com/filetran.html --far down on the page you will see=
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products that are designed to do renamings on an NT Server running Services=
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=46or Macintosh.

Or you can write your own in Apple Script...
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