[rhn-users] non-ascii caracteres in file name

[Corné Beerse]

Fabián E. Barco wrote:

> HI,
> is there a way for to block non ascii caracters (áéíóú,Á,É,ÍÓÚ,ñÑ) in 
> file names in samba or linux?

The samba configuration has some settings to force or translate to a "codepage": 
which set of 8-bit ascii characters to use. There are ways to force or translate 
a "codepag" and find a "codepage" you can live with. See `man smb.conf` for details.

>  
> I don't want that my windows users save file with name with those caracters.
>  

For unix filesystems, there is no way to restrict filenames, As far as I know, 
only 2 characters are realy prohibited: ascii-value 0 (0x00) and character `/`: 
The first one is used in directories to indicate the end of the directory name 
(as in C, the end of a string) and the `/` is used as directory separator. All 
other  values (1 to 256) are acceptable. If this is actually usable is an other 
point....



CBee