Mounting a Windows Server Share with Mac File Names

[cballinger]

I know, this is a mess.

I'm trying to mount a share that's physically located on a windows server. The issue I'm having is caused by Mac users on the system. They insist on using slashes in the filenames ex. "2007/2008 Folder". When I mount a share that contains one of these folders, I can't access it. The filename shows up: "2007?2008 Folder". I tried tab auto completing the folder name as well as escaping the characters, but no luck.

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

[dmizer]

what is your current method of mounting? fstab, or via places > connect to server?

[cballinger]

I'm using server without a gui so I'm using:

mount -t cifs -o username=user,password=pass //path/to/folder /mnt

I've tried several iocharset options, utf8 and iso-8859-1, neither have made a difference.

[dmizer]

well, i thought there would be an option for you, but it looks like there may not be. from man mount.cifs:
mapchars
Translate six of the seven reserved characters (not backslash,
but including the colon, question mark, pipe, asterik, greater
than and less than characters) to the remap range (above
0xF000), which also allows the CIFS client to recognize files
created with such characters by Windows's POSIX emulation. This
can also be useful when mounting to most versions of Samba
(which also forbids creating and opening files whose names con-
tain any of these seven characters). This has no effect if the
server does not support Unicode on the wire.

however, from reading it more closely ... it's still worth a shot. so try this:
mount -t cifs -o username=user,password=pass,mapchars //path/to/folder /mnt

[cballinger]

No luck, still shows the question marks and the files are inaccessible. So this isn't possible?

[dmizer]

No luck, still shows the question marks and the files are inaccessible. So this isn't possible?

i don't know ... i suspect there is probably a way, but it is not likely to be very user friendly.

you can try escaping the backslash with a \134 like so:
mount -t cifs -o username=user,password=pass,mapchars //path/to/folder\134with\134backslash /mnt

if that works, the obvious drawback will be that you would have to mount the slashed directory instead of browse to it. it might be easier to look into making the slash an illegal filename/foldername character on the server.