Trouble with setting up Linux fileserver

I've done one month of research on the web for this and still no solution, so I have little hope someone in here could help me out.
I have a linux box with 1TB capacity running perfectly Kubuntu. There are two laptops that need access to this box. I have a samba server on the linux box, and everyone can connect to straight from the Finder without troubles.
The problem starts when I try to copy files or folders with a " / etc in. The two pseudo solutions I found so far were a filerenamer utility and using dmg files on the server with some kind of a clone app. I didn't try them out myself, because I really need to be able to use the linux box as an external shared harddrive. (push & pull files, and having a share ready for the upcoming TimeMachine space of the several laptops at our company)
As far as I'm informed it makes no sense to format the linux box drives to HFS (HFS+ is still not supported in the current linux kernel) using AFS instead of samba doesn't solve it either. The problem would be in the samba (or whatever other filetransfer protocol you like). Is that correct?
On the internet there are no real solutions to this problem, while this might seem a quite important thing to most Apple based companies that want to save money on the X-Serve stuff by setting up a linux server. If there is really no solution available at the moment, then I which to be informed on who might be responsible for solving this problem or who I'd have to address this issue to.
If anyone might have the same issues or maybe a solution, feel free to post it here.
Thank you very much in advance.

Several points.
First of all, a / is not a valid file name character in Mac OS X, or any Unix flavor that I'm aware of.
What you're talking about is a fundamental underpinning of the Unix filesystem. That is not going to change any time soon no matter what you do or who you petition.
That said, it shouldn't even be possible to have such a file on your system right now, so that begs a question right there.
The problem starts when I try to copy files or folders with a " / etc in.
While I don't think it's going to make any difference (see my point above), it would be useful to actually indicate what your problem is. Nowhere do you actually say what happens... does the file fail to copy? what about error messages? do the files corrupt when you copy them? does the client crash? or the server?
it makes no sense to format the linux box drives to HFS
There is definitely no reason to do this, under any circumstances.
If anyone might have the same issues or maybe a solution
Sure - stop trying to use / in filenames. If you have existing files (presumably from some pre-existing environment that didn't prevent their use, implement a renaming session to get rid of them (there are software tools that will do it for you). That is your only viable long-term solution.

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