samba - Nov 1999 - Case preservation and German Umlaute with Samba 2.0.5a and AutoCAD14

Hello all,

I' ve got a strange problem since I' ve installed the latest version of
Samba. My configuration:

Hardware- & Software-Configuration:
Server-OS: AIX 4.3.0.0
Samba-Version: 2.0.5
Clients: WindowsNT Workstation 4.0 SP 5 and AutoCAD Version 14

Every Application I'm using is coping very fine with the new Samba-Version,
but AutoCAD behaves a
little strange!
When I open a file called "Zylinderstangenkopf.dwg", AutoCAD opens
this file, like it should do!
But when I'm now saving this file, AutoCAD automatically renames this file
to "ZYLINDERSTANGENKOPF.DWG"!
This Problem only occurs with file-names longer than 8.3, and on a samba-Server
(not on the local disk-drive, and
even not on an NT-Server-disk). 
For Example:
"Zylinder.dwg" stays "Zylinder.dwg" after saving.

No other Application behaves like that, and I don't know anymore, what to do
about the problem. The problem would not
be so annoying, if AutoCAD would not start up with problems because of the
big-lettered filenames!

To make the problem even more disturbing, i found out, that AutoCAD on a
Windows98 client doesn`t cause these problem!

There is also the Problem, that AutoCAD, as the only Application accepts
filenames including the "Geman Umlaute" "?" and
"?" but doesn`t accept
filenames including "?" or "?". If the filenames include one
of the last "German Umlaute" then AutoCAD shows the Message:
"The file doesn`t exist or the network connection isn't
established!"


Thank you for any kind of reply

Gregor Dicke


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--On den 9 november 1999, 00:51 +1100 Gregor Dicke
<edv@montanhydraulik.com> wrote:
> Every Application I'm using is coping very fine with the new
> Samba-Version, but AutoCAD behaves a  little strange! 
> When I open a file called "Zylinderstangenkopf.dwg", AutoCAD
opens this
> file, like it should do!  But when I'm now saving this file, AutoCAD
> automatically renames this file to "ZYLINDERSTANGENKOPF.DWG"! 
This
> Problem only occurs with file-names longer than 8.3, and on a
> samba-Server (not on the local disk-drive, and  even not on an
> NT-Server-disk). 
> For Example: 
> "Zylinder.dwg" stays "Zylinder.dwg" after saving. 
>  
> No other Application behaves like that, and I don't know anymore, what
to
> do about the problem. The problem would not  be so annoying, if AutoCAD
> would not start up with problems because of the big-lettered filenames! 
> 
There is a similar problem with the email client Mulberry (see
www.cyrusoft.com for more info on the program). When saving an attachment,
the program asks if I want to open it with the corresponding application,
e.g. MS Word. The attachment filename passed to the application is
converted to uppercase if and only if Mulberry saved the file to a Samba
share.

If such a file is then saved from MS Word, the name will become uppercase.
But it is possible to get around the problem by opening the file through
normal means instead. (I.e. Mulberry saves the name correctly -- it is
converted to uppercase at a slightly later stage.) 

This happens regardless of name length. OS for Samba is RedHat 5.x, Samba
version 2.0.5a (and older 2.0.x versions), Mulberry platform NT4 SP5 (and
SP4), and Mulberry version 1.4.4 (and older 1.4.x versions).

In smb.conf: preserve case = yes, short preserve case = yes

To me, this is only very modestly annoying, so I do not feel like
investigating it much further, but I thought it might be relevant to report
that AutoCAD is not the only problematic application.

Otto Giesenfeld