My BSD <MyBSD@???> wrote:
[...]
> The problem is not really Samba but Windows.
> The cron job is to backup Maildirs from an OS/X host to a smb share on
> a Windows server mounted with "mount_smbfs."
> Because, as far as I know, file names in Windows may not contain a
> colon, the Windows server will under no circumstances accept a file
> name that contains a colon.
[...]
Perhaps mounting as cifs instead of smbfs and using this mount option
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mapchars
Translate six of the seven reserved characters (not backslash, but
including the colon, question mark, pipe, asterik, greater than
and less than characters) to the remap range (above 0xF000), which
also allows the CIFS client to recognize files created with such
characters by Windows's POSIX emulation. This can also be useful
when mounting to most versions of Samba (which also forbids
creating and opening files whose names contain any of these seven
characters). This has no effect if the server does not support
Unicode on the wire.
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might work.
cu andreas
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