[vdr] Re: SAMBA incompatibilities with VFAT=1 directory names

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Simon Dean wrote:
> 
> > What problems do you have?
> >
> > My vdr-box gets recordings from a nt-server through
> > samba for ~one year now - no problems.
> >
> > ..Andreas
> 
> The samba server is on the Linux VDR box.  I'm connecting to the Linux
> VDR box from Windows 2000/Xp.  Windows Explorer will often not show any
> contents in an EPISODE directory.
> 
> So for example the following directory will appear in Windows Explorer
> as empty:
> 
> V:\Diagnosis_Murder\A_Man_You_Don#27t_Meet_Every_Day#3A_Jude_meets_a_fac
> e_from_the_past_and_hears_some_news_she_wasn#27t_expecting._W#2FS.
> 
> In a command prompt if I try to change from the Diagnosis_Murder
> directory to the
> A_Man_You_Don#27t_Meet_Every_Day#3A_Jude_meets_a_face_from_the_past_and_
> hears_some_news_she_wasn#27t_expecting._W#2FS. directory I get "The
> system cannot find the path specified.".
> 
> Is this likely a bug with samba or Windows' SMB client?

Maybe the directory name is too long for Windows?
Perhaps Windows can only handle directory names up to 80 characters?

You could try renaming

  A_Man_You_Don#27t_Meet_Every_Day#3A_Jude_meets_a_face_from_the_past_and_hears_some_news_she_wasn#27t_expecting._W#2FS

to

  A_Man_You_Don#27t_Meet_Every_Day#3A_Jude_meets_a_face_from_the_past_and_hears

If it works then, I could add another Windows workaround into the VFAT=1 case
and make sure no directory name exceeds 80 characters.

Klaus
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