How to prevent illegal file and folder name creation in Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008
- by Joel Thibeault
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:
How to remove cabability to
create file or folder creation in
NTFS that contains invalid
characters?
Can you remove the
POSIX subsystem from Windows to fix
this issue?
How does disabling
8.3 dos name creation factor into this issue?
Will any of these
fixes prevent linux clients from
creating windows compliant files?