topic Special characters in Filename using CIFS in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/special-characters-in-filename-using-cifs/m-p/195981#M149111 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>L.S.,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>We mount alfresco using a CIFS mount using following command in fstab:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>//localhost/alfresco /mnt/alfresco&nbsp; cifs credentials=/etc/.alfresco,uid=alfresco,gid=alfresco,iocharset=utf8</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We now notice some filenames contain '[' or ']'. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>However valid names in Alfresco the mentioned characters are unfortunately special characters under Linux. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The problem we have is that we can not "stat" these files.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Example</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>test[1].txt</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Can be used, renamed from within a windows explorer mount and also from the web interface. This means there is no way we can prevent users from using these characters.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But from a Linux CIFS mount we get following result:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>cp test[2].txt /tmp/a</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>cp: cannot open `test[2].txt' for reading: No such file or directory</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>All escaping sequences we can think of also give this error (mind the difference in the open and stat of the error output)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>cp test\[2\].txt /tmp/a </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>cp: cannot stat `test[2].txt': No such file or directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>cp 'test[2].txt' /tmp/a</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>cp: cannot stat `test[2].txt': No such file or directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>cp 'test\[2\].txt' /tmp/a</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>cp: cannot stat `test\\[2\\].txt': Invalid argument</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>cp "test\[2\].txt" /tmp/a</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>cp: cannot stat `test\\[2\\].txt': Invalid argument</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We use this mount to make a filebased backup of the Alfresco repository using rsync and is therefore very valuable to us. Do we need to use special mount options to prevent this? Or is this a deeper problem in Linux file system access.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any ideas?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Robert</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:18:01 GMT toltech 2008-11-08T10:18:01Z Special characters in Filename using CIFS https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/special-characters-in-filename-using-cifs/m-p/195981#M149111 L.S.,We mount alfresco using a CIFS mount using following command in fstab://localhost/alfresco /mnt/alfresco&nbsp; cifs credentials=/etc/.alfresco,uid=alfresco,gid=alfresco,iocharset=utf8We now notice some filenames contain '[' or ']'. However valid names in Alfresco the mentioned characters are unfortu Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:18:01 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/special-characters-in-filename-using-cifs/m-p/195981#M149111 toltech 2008-11-08T10:18:01Z Re: Special characters in Filename using CIFS https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/special-characters-in-filename-using-cifs/m-p/195982#M149112 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Problem solved:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>We have upgraded from 2.2. to 3.0</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Robert</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:27:36 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/special-characters-in-filename-using-cifs/m-p/195982#M149112 toltech 2008-11-08T16:27:36Z