[iyonix-support] Re: Network filing system problem
- From: Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:07:08 +0000
On 30 Jan, rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in message
<0404c7e150.jr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I am trying to backup my Iyonix (5.16 flashed) onto a NAS drive and am
> experiencing not a little difficulty. A whole slew of problems are a
> result of illegal characters in the RISC OS file names. This leads either
> to a screw up of the the file name or an abort of the backup.
I assume you're using LanManFS of some flavour, with SMB?
> For example !Director has 6 files called /cvsignore. This causes an abort
> as "/" is an invalid file name character in Linux which is the operating
> system in the NAS box.
The fact that / is a directory separator on Linux is irrelevant: the / will
map to . at the RISC OS end, so /cvsignore will become .cvsignore.
Filenames starting with a dot are hidden files on Linux, so the NAS won't
admit to LanManFS that the saved file is there; LMFS then trips over.
You need to configure the NAS to reveal hidden files over SMB. This is a
configuration option on the NAS (if it can be configured; it can be with a
Samba installation on a Linux box), and therefore not really within the
scope of this list.
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Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England
http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/
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