[Bug 38468] New: Allow navigating to folders with colon in their name
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38468 Bug ID: 38468 Summary: Allow navigating to folders with colon in their name Product: Wine Version: 1.7.38 Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org Reporter: yajo(a)openaliasbox.org Distribution: --- Right now, the current implementation of GVFS mounts samba folders in paths like: /run/user/<UID>/smb-share:server=hostname,share=sharename/ Some Windows apps don't work fine with those characters in the path. For example, if I want to install something I have in that share and I run the `setup.exe` file from `wine explorer`, it works; but if I run it from `wine uninstaller`, it fails saying that characters "/:<>|" are forbidden in paths. Also, if I installed MS Excel and try to open a .xslx file from a samba share in Nautilus (right button > open with > MS Excel), it fails saying that it cannot find the file. This makes the UX very uncomfortable, because the user needs to copy the file to a local drive, edit it, and then copy it back to the network share. Independently if Bug 34748 gets fixed or not, IMHO wine itself should do something with Linux paths containing those characters, the same way it does when transforming "/" to "\" or when dealing with uppercase/lowercase files. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38468 François Gouget <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW CC| |fgouget(a)codeweavers.com Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from François Gouget <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com> --- I have collected some data on this. /run/user/<UID>/smb-share:server=hostname,share=sharename/ In the path below '/run/user/<UID>' is the gvfs mount point and 'smb-share:server=hostname,share=sharename' is a virtual directory created by gvfs when one 'mounts' the corresponding Samba share. So I'm not sure Wine would get a notification when the 'smb-share:...' directory gets created. Still the gvfs documentation says that it uses UDisks2 and the source code does contain quite a few references to UDisks2. So there's hope that Wine can turn these into drive letters and thus 'hide' the colon in the path. Another point has to do with the error one gets when double-clicking on a filename containing a colon in the File -> Open dialog. It comes from a check in the first lines of FILEDLG95_ValidatePathAction() in dlls/comdlg32/filedlg.c. Removing that check makes it possible to open a filenames containing a colon in Wine's notepad application. But Excel 2000 still refuses to open such filenames. So either there are other checks elsewhere, or Excel itself does not deal well with such filenames. So it seems there's no single-line hack that would workaround this issue for most applications. Any 'path mangling' approach would obviously have to be done at a much lower level. Maybe it could leverage the short vs. long filename support but that's not clear. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38468 --- Comment #2 from Yajo <yajo(a)openaliasbox.org> ---
So there's hope that Wine can turn these into drive letters and thus 'hide' the colon in the path.
That would be great, in fact it's how Windows works. The only workaround I found for now is to manually symlink those locations to a place without comma. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38468 --- Comment #3 from François Gouget <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com> --- See the links below for past and current attempts at changing the GVFS policy on this: * Bug 723399 - Names of gvfs-fuse directories should be more application friendly Contains a proposed patch from a GNOME developer. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723399 * Bug 949906 - Colons in automatically created names by gvfs-fuse cause problems An old 2013 attempt that did not get far but was unrelated to Wine. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949906 -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38468 --- Comment #4 from Janne <janne.kekkonen@gmail.com> --- Hello, according to this, colons are not allowed in file or directory name. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723399, contains link to to MS KB article about characters usable in file or directory naming. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177506 Above link seems not to work any more, but it is stored into archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20150619005746/https://support.microsoft.com/en-... -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
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