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10.3: Name files with a slash
Authored by: kevinv on Dec 27, '03 10:11:46PM

I've had problems with Windows, but not Unix systems. If you were accessing a Unix box via Samba sharing you're restricted to the Windows character naming -- which disallows slashes (/), backslashes ([code]\[/code]) and colons (:).

Unix, and Mac OS X allows backslashes and colons in the name, but the forward slash is not allowed. As others have mentioned this slash in the name thing is accomplished by changing the slash to a colon.

When attempting to move my iTunes library to a Samba share I found out just how limited the windows character naming is. I switched to using NFS and all the filenaming problems went away.



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10.3: Name files with a slash
Authored by: aranor on Dec 30, '03 02:12:58AM
When doing inline code, turn on HTML and use the tag instead.

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10.3: Name files with a slash
Authored by: aranor on Dec 30, '03 02:15:54AM
GAH! Stupid preview! It turned my &lt;/&gt; entities into actual </> chars! I meant to say use the <tt> tag instead.

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