Re: [patch]
Shirish Pargaonkar <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Shirish Pargaonkar <[email protected]> wrote: > This patch disables mapchars mount option if the CIFS/SMB server > honours unix extension > since then rempaing of special characters such as : in strings such as > path name are > not necessary. > > Regards, > > Shirish > I think this patch should not be considered. I just verified that the older samba server such as this Version 3.0.22-3-SUSE-CODE10 would still need mapchars option to map special characters if the strings such as file names have these characters i.e. a:b. In newer versions of samba servers, mapchars option is irrelevant.