jori.hamalainen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > I am building a little video share system for VDR, it copies selected recording > directories to a network drive. > > As some of you can guess, the problem is " : " -character at VDR directory > structure. Samba filesystem doesn't accept it. > > So my question is that why it was chosen in the first place, and can it be > changed to " ; " -character. Or any other than not allowed samba characters. > > Disallowed chars are at least: < > / \ : > > I don't see any benefit in VDR to be samba-incompatible. > > Of course why I ask here is instead of just patching my sharing VDRs. Because > if new filename format is to be standardized for VDR usage, and probably VDR > patch that it will accept both formats (with ";" and ":"). And it would help > everyone sharing VDR-files with Windows machines. > > Best regards, Jori > > Ps. Or is there some other way round this limitation? I tried samba.conf global > option "valid chars=\:" but it didn't help. From VDR/INSTALL: If your video directory will be on a VFAT partition, add the compile time switch VFAT=1 to the 'make' command. Alternatively, you can call VDR with the command line option '--vfat'. The ':' was replaced with '.' in version 1.3.32. The reason why it has been used originally was that I wrote VDR on an actual operating system and didn't think of that M$ crap ;-) Klaus
