Unable to create .bin directory in CIFS

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I discovered this issue working with nodejs on a remote FS (cifs). Everything works fine but creating ".bin" directory an error appeared "unable to create directory .bin". All others dirs' names are accepted (.bin2, .blabla, ...). Same behavior on other CIFS mouting point. Anyone knows why and how to solve?

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mherrera On

Exactly the same thing happens to me, I set up a CIFS directory (WD EXT2), and when I ran an rsync, it reported that the mkdir /\<some path\>/.bin gives the error:

No such file or directory (2)

Trying to do the mkdir .bin on the command line in the mounted directory gives me the same error.

A workaround, is to create the directory manually on the remote server.