Periods are not listed under the invalid set of characters to be in a path. In practice, my company has several shares with folders with periods in the name (particularly when deploying to websites). However, a regex in SmbDeployerRunType.java called SIMPLE_UNC_REGEX does not allow for periods anywhere in the target URL. This prevents us from using SMB deployment for placing files on our web server.
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62771/how-check-if-given-string-is-legal-allowed-file-name-under-windows for a discussion of this.
Periods are not listed under the invalid set of characters to be in a path. In practice, my company has several shares with folders with periods in the name (particularly when deploying to websites). However, a regex in SmbDeployerRunType.java called SIMPLE_UNC_REGEX does not allow for periods anywhere in the target URL. This prevents us from using SMB deployment for placing files on our web server.
I'm running build: snapshot-20130208170029