All files transferred to my Samba server end up with lower case on the Unix box. Case is not preserved from NT to Unix. For example, if I copy C:\Temp\MyFile to a directory on the Samba server, it ends up there as myfile. What am I missing? I browsed the FAQ's in the web pages, without success... Marc Provencher Foxboro Calgary, Systems Integration and IT (403) 777-4275 mprovenc@foxboro.ca
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 12:51:49AM +1000, Provencher, Marc wrote:>All files transferred to my Samba server end up with lower case on the >Unix box. Case is not preserved from NT to Unix. For example, if I >copy C:\Temp\MyFile to a directory on the Samba server, it ends up there >as myfile. > >What am I missing?Microsoft BDPLs don't really recognize case differences even though it appears that they should. The files Readme.txt and README.TXT are really identical. These would be two distinct files on Unix of course, and it would be difficult to impossible to determine what the Right Thing would be with these files. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -- Robert Heinlein
> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:49:52 -0400 > From: "Provencher, Marc" <mprovenc@foxboro.ca> > To: "Samba Mailing List (E-mail)" <samba@samba.anu.edu.au> > Subject: Letter case not preserved > Message-ID: <DD575986C70AD211ACEC00805FA6151E26D580@ddo.foxboro.ca> > > All files transferred to my Samba server end up with lower case on the > Unix box. Case is not preserved from NT to Unix. For example, if I > copy C:\Temp\MyFile to a directory on the Samba server, it > ends up there > as myfile. > > What am I missing? > > I browsed the FAQ's in the web pages, without success... > > Marc Provencher > Foxboro Calgary, Systems Integration and IT > (403) 777-4275 > mprovenc@foxboro.ca >Try preserve case = yes. The default case for Samba is lower case (I think) but that is configurable too (default case = upper) Hope this helps, Regards, Darren Smith Unix Administrator CUDiv - Olympic Dam ext. 87242
Hi.> > All files transferred to my Samba server end up with lower case on the > > Unix box. Case is not preserved from NT to Unix. For example, if I > > copy C:\Temp\MyFile to a directory on the Samba server, it > > ends up there > > as myfile. > > > > What am I missing? > > > > I browsed the FAQ's in the web pages, without success... > > > Try preserve case = yes. The default case for Samba is lower case (I > think) but that is configurable too (default case = upper) > > Hope this helps, > > Regards, > > Darren Smith >I've come across this problem also. I have: mangle case = no preserve case = yes set, but all files seem to get created in lower case. Am I missing something? - Ben Kelley. -- Ben Kelley - ben_kelley@wdr.com Phone +61 2 9324 2382 Fax +61 2 9324 2400 Internet - http://i.am/ben_kelley SBCWDR Intranet - http://syddevwww/People/Ben_Kelley.html Warburg Dillon Read, Level 24, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney, 2000 Australia -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vcard.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 417 bytes Desc: Card for Ben Kelley Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/19980922/8c95b00b/vcard.vcf
Hi.
This is not a bug. The default action (so I've found out) is to force
"short"
names (ones that fit into 8.3) to the default case. If you set "short
preserve
case = yes" then short file name are not forced to the default case.
With both "preserve case = yes" and "short preserve case =
yes" then all files
created in mixed-case aware apps keep their correct case on the Unix side - even
for "short" filenames. They don't get forced to their default case
with this
option set.
- Ben Kelley.
Fred Viles wrote:
> On 22 Sep 98, at 11:28, Ben Kelley wrote about
> "Re: Letter case not preserved":
>
> | > > All files transferred to my Samba server end up with lower case
on the
> | > > Unix box. Case is not preserved from NT to Unix. For example,
if I
> | > > copy C:\Temp\MyFile to a directory on the Samba server, it
> | > > ends up there
> | > > as myfile.
> |...
> | > Try preserve case = yes. The default case for Samba is lower case
(I
> | > think) but that is configurable too (default case = upper)
> |...
> | I've come across this problem also. I have:
> |
> | mangle case = no
> | preserve case = yes
> |
> | set, but all files seem to get created in lower case. Am I missing
> | something?
> |...
>
> "preserve case" applies to "long" names. There is a
seperate option,
> "short preserve case", which is documented as controlling whether
> "short" names are converted to the default case or left alone.
>
> According to the docs, "short" names are all uppercase and within
the
> 8.3 DOS convention. Since DOS and Windows 16-bit apps will always
> pass all filenames as uppercase, it can make a lot of sense to have
> "short preserve case = off" if you create files with DOS apps and
> then use them from Unix. Otherwise (for example) all the source
> files you create with your DOS editor will be named SOURCE.C instead
> of source.c.
>
> However, there appears to be a bug in the implementation of "short
> preserve case" (at least in 1.9.18p10). Contrary to the docs, *all*
> 8.3 names are forced to the default case, even mixed-case names.
> This is not what is wanted, IMO.
>
> The following patch to server.c fixed this problem for me:
>
> --- orig/server.c Wed Aug 19 16:41:53 1998
> +++ server.c Fri Nov 27 22:36:18 1998
> @@ -551,8 +551,13 @@
> pstrcpy(saved_last_component, name);
> }
>
> - if (!case_sensitive &&
> - (!case_preserve || (is_8_3(name, False) &&
!short_case_preserve)))
> + /*
> + ** force name to default case if desired. !strhaslower() was added to
> + ** match docs - 8.3 names are not forced to default unless they are all
> + ** uppercase.
> + */
> + if (!case_sensitive && (!case_preserve ||
> + (!short_case_preserve && is_8_3(name, False) &&
!strhaslower(name))))
> strnorm(name);
>
> /* check if it's a printer file */
--
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