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I understand that Linux and Windows have different set of illegal characters, but it seems when a file name contains even a single special character like : on a Samba shared directory (Linux server), the whole file name becomes gibberish.

For example, "a:b" becomes "A4WTMA~A". That is not so helpful to know what the file is... Can I make the name more predictable? Like,

  • Replace only special characters to "_".
  • If that name already exists, add a number at the end.

So, if

  • a:b
  • a_b
  • a?b

exist on Linux it would be shown on Windows as

  • a_b1
  • a_b
  • a_b2

on Windows, or something like that instead of,

  • A4WTMA~A
  • a_b
  • A6ARMU~L

as they currently are shown?

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