folder ending with dot (.) not showing SMB/Mac

[EtienneB]

I noticed that when inside my SMB share I have a folder ending with a . (dot), that my Macbook will not show that folder. Only after renaming it by SSH-ing into the server and removing the dot, it does show.

I run TrueNas 12U2 now.

My SMB general settings:
vfs objects = fruit catia streams_xattr
fruit:encoding = native

Any ideas if I need other settings?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Ceate the Folder from the Mac. Dots are among the characters that are encoded in a special way on CIFS volumes. Hard coded into Mac OS, no way to change that. Once you know the encoding you can create similar folders on the command line ...

 

[EtienneB]

Thanks.
The folder is created on the server by the sabnzbd jail, where the downloaded file contains a subfolder with the dot at the end.
Can create a script though to check these folders and rename them automatically.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Then create another folder ending with a dot from your Mac to see how it ends up in the file system

 

[EtienneB]

When I create a folder via the Mac on the SMB share with a . on the end, ends up with a ? (question mark)
so:
test. => test?

Excuse my ignorance, but knowing this, how would it help me?
when sabnzbd creates a folder with an ending dot (.) on the server automatically, the mac does not see it. If create a folder the dot shows up as a ?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

The question mark is probably a special character. Try ls | cat -v or ls | hexdump. I just thought you want those dots to be there so I suggested finding the proper encoding. Then you can rename the folders accordingly.

 

[EtienneB]

Got it thanks.
But I think I will run a script on the Truenas directly, like a cron job or so.
test. created via the mac, ends up as testM-) on the server share using ls | cat -v
hexdump is a bit too much for me now ;-)

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

That means Meta-), i.e. the ASCII code of ) and some high bit set. It does not mean the three characters M - )
That's why hexdump would be more helpful.