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

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Subject: [vdr] Re: SAMBA incompatibilities with VFAT=1 directory names (21-Apr-2002 0:16)
From:    Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de
To:      vdr@linuxtv.org

> 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?

No, i tried exactly the path from above on my vdr-box (except i don't
mapped v: but g:). Works without problems from W2K->VDR.
 
> 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.

Please don't do that, it will prevent me to use longer directory names.

Wich samba-version is used? I heard that there were some problems with
some older versions, or maybe there is something misconfigured in samba.

...Andreas