The company I work for uses samba to allow access to Unix files from PCs running Windows 95. When I create a file from my PC on the samba drive with a name including upper case letters, the name is forced into all lower case: I cannot create a file name containing an upper case letter. From Unix, I can create (and see from my PC) mixed-case file names. I asked my system administrator whether he could configure samba to allow mixed-case files, but he says "no: it is a property of Windows 95". Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Tim Wilson Symbionics Ltd mailto:tdw@<first word of company name>.co.uk ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 08:50:55PM +1000, Tim Wilson wrote:> The company I work for uses samba to allow access to Unix files from PCs > running Windows 95. > > When I create a file from my PC on the samba drive with a name including > upper case letters, the name is forced into all lower case: I cannot > create a file name containing an upper case letter. From Unix, I can > create (and see from my PC) mixed-case file names. > > I asked my system administrator whether he could configure samba to > allow mixed-case files, but he says "no: it is a property of Windows > 95". > > Does anyone have any suggestions?This is discussed in the smb.conf(5) man page. Here's the URL to the appropriate section: http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/docs/man/man5/smb.conf.html#NAMEMANGLING Anyway, here's the entries in our smb.conf that we use for mixed-case file names: case sensitive = no preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes Have fun... Owen
Tim, You have probably received a tonne of repllies already, but here's mine anyway. In the smb.conf file, set the following: preserve case = yes You can also use short preserve case = yes Hopefully these should help Glen Gibb Ridley College> The company I work for uses samba to allow access to Unix files from PCs > running Windows 95. > > When I create a file from my PC on the samba drive with a name including > upper case letters, the name is forced into all lower case: I cannot > create a file name containing an upper case letter. From Unix, I can > create (and see from my PC) mixed-case file names. > > I asked my system administrator whether he could configure samba to > allow mixed-case files, but he says "no: it is a property of Windows > 95". > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance, > Tim Wilson > Symbionics Ltd > mailto:tdw@<first word of company name>.co.uk >