I have weird Xs in my finder window...

under the network drive where * and ' were in file names. The harddrive files are displaying correctly.
I have recently reinstalled 10.4 (and upgraded to 10.4.6) so I am sure there is some setting I have to adjust. Can anyone tell me which setting and where to find them?
Thank you so much!

That's because the network computer can't use those characters in filenames so they get replaced.

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