[sclug] Case preservation in Samba

[Bob Franklin]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Andy Arbon wrote:

> ... Does anyone know ~ the correct configuration options, or if it's
> even possible? In my smb.conf I already have:
> 	preserve case = yes
> 	case sensitive = yes
>
> I haven't been able to find any information on how to get this to work,
> but I also haven't found anything which says it definitely doesn't work.

I've never used this before as SMB is normally not case-sensitive (well,
the servers (/clients (?)) rarely are) so I guess you can expect some
funnies.  Anyway, trying it with a Windows 2000 client, mapping a share
off of Samba (2.2.8a onto ext2) with the above two options, I get:

  [H:\] echo mince > monce

  [H:\] type Monce
  The system cannot find the file specified.

  [H:\] type monce
  mince

So that seems to be doing what it's supposed to.

Are you sure the problem isn't in the smbfs client, rather than the server
(since my tests above seem to imply Samba is doing what it should, even
with a Windows client)?

  - Bob


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