The problem is not the directory, but rather the file name:
1145574924.P25062Q0M483195.bigoak.quickdispense.com:2,S
There is a colon between the com and the 2. Colons are a reserved character in the DOS world. Yes....I thought about encapsulating (gzip) but was looking for a more elegant solution.

Brad

Jan Kundrát wrote:

Brad Bateman wrote:

Since the colon is used in Maildir file names and is illegal in
Samba/Windows, is there any way to substitute that character for
another?  I use Samba to do a nightly backup and cannot use NFS.


Why do you think that you can't have a file named ".foo.bar" on win32
systems?

Anyway, what about making an archive (tar, zip,...)?

Cheers,
-jkt