samba - Apr 2002 - Uppercase / Lowercase letters in File Names

We have a Samba server and some Windows 95/98 clients. On the clients
there is a program which accesses files from a Samba share, and it
creates lists of file names where uppercase/lowercase letters may
differ from how the file name is stored on the server. This does
not matter for the Samba share, but we want to transfer this list to
the server where it is processed by a unix program, and this pro-
gram should access the files, too.

Is there any tool to look for the right "spelling" of the file name,
something that looks for files the same way Samba does?

Jochen R?denbeck

Hello,

I've seen a couple of mails here asking how to automatically create home
directories for users that are being added to the system by winbind.

The answer is using the pam_mkhomedir module as said in response to some
of those quesitons. But the help out a little more I've made a overview on
the exact proceedings of setting this up:

You edit the pam configuration file for Samba. On a recent RedHat
system the directory "/etc/pam.d" contains pam configuration for all
services that require authentication. So you edit the "samba" file in
that
directory, add this line to the file "/etc/pam.d/samba" :

   session    required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/sambaskel umask=0022

Because the order is important in these pam configuration files you need
to put this line before all other lines that start with "session", but
after the lines that start with "auth" or "account".

The "skel" parameter indicates which directory is used as skeleton.
This
just means that everything that is inside the skel-directory is also
copied to the home directory being created. The "umask" parameter sets
the
default permissions given to new files created in the home directory. See
"man umask" for more details.

Next you need to tell Samba to use this pam configuration file. This first
of all means that Samba needs to be compiled with the "--use-pam"
switch.
This can been taken care of by the makerpms.sh script you can use to make
a Samba rpm file.

You also need the set the Samba parameter "obey pam restrictions" to
yes
in your smb.conf file. Also read the explenation about this parameter in
the smb.conf man page to check if you also need to take care of other
things when setting this parameter to yes.

That should be it. If you added a [homes] share and login with a user that
doesn't have a home dir on the Samba server it should be created.

Enjoy it,
Tim

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Jochen Roedenbeck <roe@spl-spindel.de> wrote on 11.04.2002 18:55:59:
>
>We have a Samba server and some Windows 95/98 clients. On the clients
>there is a program which accesses files from a Samba share, and it
>creates lists of file names where uppercase/lowercase letters may
>differ from how the file name is stored on the server. This does
>not matter for the Samba share, but we want to transfer this list to
>the server where it is processed by a unix program, and this pro-
>gram should access the files, too.
>
>Is there any tool to look for the right "spelling" of the file
name,
>something that looks for files the same way Samba does?
>
>Jochen Rödenbeck
>
Hi Jochen,

try to turn on "Allow all uppercase filenames" in the preferences of 
windows explorer. 

Ciao Oliver
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