[gollem] Problems with special characters in passwords or filenames

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Stephan Lauffer <lauffer at ph-freiburg.de>:

> Hi!
>
> We stumbled over some special characters in passwords in the SMB  
> module (.../Vfs/SMB.php). I also noted some problems with special  
> chars in filenames. For example using $ (mad idea, but my happen).

Non-ascii password characters won't work reliably, in anything but a  
closed system.

Special characters in filenames *should* work, though at least with  
the VFS filesystem driver, there are some hardly to reproduce  
problems. I don't know of any with the SMB driver, though that doesn't  
have to say anything.

> Since I don't know gollem that good and before I try to fix this  
> problems by myself: Does anybody know where we should take care of  
> these special characters? If it is only a SMB problem maybe  
> protected function _execute($cmd) would be the right place?

Hard to say without any details about *what* fails.

> Two other SMB related problems: Right now we have a bug while  
> accessing DFS shares. Some of our double quotation marks passed to  
> our smbclient causes problems. The other point is that we need the  
> option for the domain of a user (the option -W of smbclient).
>
> (Jan:) Are you interested in a patch for the DFS and Domain problems?

Yes, and additions to the existing Horde_Vfs unit tests too, so that  
we can reproduce the problem.
-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/