Andreas Mair wrote: > Hi, > > >>Thanks, Andreas. I should RTFM better :). I was just trying to see if I >>could map a directory to a Windows PC using Samba, but it looks like its >>using 8.3 (shortname) dir listings which causes it to fail. Thats ok. I >>appreciate the clarifications. NFS would be the best solution. > > > Don't know how you setup samba, but I use it to share my VDR's recordings > and they all have long names. Maybe it has to do with a missing VFAT > define? > To remove the 8.3, I had to add this to [global] in smb.conf: # Prevent 8.3 directory listings case sensitive = yes preserve case = yes mangle case = no mangled names = no But, now vdr is using invalid DOS characters which prevents the files from opening. I dont think that ":" is valid. :) Regards, C.
