Re: [DLC]allowable characters for group names on Xubuntu

I don't think you can use underscores in network shares in windows.
However, you can use a hyphen.

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Politik Durden <politikdurden-/[email protected]>wrote:

> Running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx, creating group names to mount to a
> Windows share and the GUI is telling me I have some illegal characters in
> the group names.
>
> Group names:
>
> "music_on_compaqd51c"
> "shared_video_on_compaqd51c"
> "software_on_compaqd51c"
>
> etc, etc
>
> I used the command line to create the groups, and got no errors but when I
> used the GUI to verify I did the commands right, I got the error about
> illegal characters. There are no other error messages, but I'm just
> wondering about allowable characters, before I create more groups.
>
> Oddly enough, Google didn't turn up any results for rules on user/group
> names.
>
> As usual, thanks in advance..........
>
>
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