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Use multiple iTunes libraries via fast user switching
Authored by: brainlego on Jul 12, '05 08:19:48AM

Just a quick question about SAMBA sharing, long filenames and special characters.

I'm using an itunes library mounted via SMB from a Fedora Core 3 linux box. I have itunes set to organise my music library and i'm finding music which has extra long filenames gets abbreviated during the process. Special characters like 'ΓΌ' appear as underscores and in some cases these "unconventionally named" files have disappeared...hmm...

Can anybody recommend a good setup? I think I'm using EXT2 as a drive format also. I was using NFS shares previously which seemed to handle the long filename issue better, but i've moved to a more open studio environment and thought SMB would offer a little more security. Maybe there's a rogue package I need to install on the fedora box perhaps...?

suggestions welcome...



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