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Any mac specialist ? windows file share

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rsutoratosu

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I have a few clients that are using mac / pc on a windows 2008 file server.

For some reason the Mac guys use a slash and it gets translates into a "dot" on the windows side, the windows machine can rename it but the mac guys can't.

We change the "dot" back to a dash and the mac guy scan modify it again. So some where it's translating this wrong. On the windows side, you see the path becomes a box, ascii character and probably the mac side can't find this

Mac guys are using Osx 10.6.8 build 10K549. We're starting to get rid of the "dots" and replace with dashs but any ideas on this translation issue ?


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rsutoratosu said:
I have a few clients that are using mac / pc on a windows 2008 file server.

For some reason the Mac guys use a slash and it gets translates into a "dot" on the windows side, the windows machine can rename it but the mac guys can't.

We change the "dot" back to a dash and the mac guy scan modify it again. So some where it's translating this wrong. On the windows side, you see the path becomes a box, ascii character and probably the mac side can't find this

Mac guys are using Osx 10.6.8 build 10K549. We're starting to get rid of the "dots" and replace with dashs but any ideas on this translation issue ?


mac.jpg
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Windows doesn't support /\ in a folder/file name if I remember correctly.
 
Because it's got some duct tape for compatibility with Apple. Just train them to stop naming their stuff like that.
 
yeah everyone has been warned.. now we gotta go through thousands of directory to search for these /\, good thing its by the hour 🙂
 
rsutoratosu said:
yeah everyone has been warned.. now we gotta go through thousands of directory to search for these /\, good thing its by the hour 🙂
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On the Mac or Windows side? On the Mac side it should be pretty simple to write a bash or perl script to find all files including slashes in their names and rename them to something sane.
 
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