Am Montag, 17. Juli 2017, 00:59:01 CEST schrieb gumb:
Further examination of my files on the drive would suggest that it's the long filenames that have not been truncated but simply massacred and transformed into gobbledegook. I assume this is the tedious result of samba using Windows Joliet or some-such misery?
Most likely this is result of file / folder names containing one of the characters \ : * ? " < > | These characters are forbidden in Windows path names, and therefore samba reverts to auto generated 8.3 names. In case you have a lot of such file names, it might be worthwhile to investigate if the router also allows for publishing the disk as an nfs share. Accessing it via nfs would keep the file names intact. Just my €0.02 /Andreas -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org