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Mac sees mangled filenames from Linux SAMBA share

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Mar 15, 20261538 views
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Problem

Certain filenames in my SAMBA shares from Linux are not getting transmitted properly. It's certain files in certain folders and it doesn't affect all folders or all files within a single folder. I can find no discerning pattern to the mangling but hoping that this is a known problem. No amount of r…

Error Output

0JY4B3~H.M4V 
0MBS1O~M.M4V 
0NKDX9~R.M4V 
0O0ZTA~A.M4V

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Fix for: Mac sees mangled filenames from Linux SAMBA share

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Those are short filenames, created by Samba's name mangling so that SMB clients that lack case sensitivity won't choke on them. See the NAME MANGLING section in the man page for more details. Most likely you have multiple filenames that vary only by…

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