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@winehq.org Reporter: yajo@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.