How to prevent illegal file and folder name creation in Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008

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Published on 2009-07-23T05:04:41Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 14:04 UTC
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Preventing illegal file and Folder name creation on a Windows 2003/2008 file server is the goal. We know from articles like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62771/how-check-if-given-string-is-legal-allowed-file-name-under-windows that for some reason the file system allows creation of illegal file/folder chacters and paths that exceed the limitations of Windows. I need the following question answered:

  1. How to remove cabability to create file or folder creation in NTFS that contains invalid characters?
  2. Can you remove the POSIX subsystem from Windows to fix this issue?
  3. How does disabling 8.3 dos name creation factor into this issue?
  4. Will any of these fixes prevent linux clients from creating windows compliant files?

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