Can't create directory under cifs filesystem with backslash in name in Dolphin nor Krusader (works OK in shell)

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I have remote filesystem mounted using cifs like this (/etc/fstab):

//remote_host.local/storage /mnt/remote/ cifs _netdev,credentials=/home/piotr/.config/cifs-credentials.conf,uid=piotr,gid=piotr,user 0 0

I can create directory under this filesystem containing backslash in shell without problems:

me@host:/mnt/remote$ mkdir "a\b"
me@host:/mnt/remote$ ls
'a\b'

yet when I try to create the same directory in Krusader or Dolphin I get the error Could not make folder /mnt/remote/a\b.

Creating directory named a\b under local filesystem (btrfs) works OK both in shell and in Krusader and Dolphin.

Any ideas?

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Bumping hoping for any help with this.
Thanks in advance.

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The reasion why this wouldn’t work is very likely that SMB, as a protocol that originates from Windows, doesn’t support file names with backslashes because on Windows certain characters like the backslash are not allowed in file names.

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Thanks!

It’s funny I originally disregarded this knowledge seeing I can create a\b under /mnt/remote which made me think this is possible then. The problem which I see now is that in the fstab the mount point is in fact /mnt/remote/subdir not /mnt/remote/ so creating directory under /mnt/remote I was creating it under local btrfs filesystem and not the mounted cifs filesystem…