samba - Oct 2000 - Samba/Windows Case Sensitivity

For brevity, I won't include much detail in the following question about
samba/windows case sensitivity. I'm assuming that someone out there
has spent significant time working with this issue and knows what I'm
dealing with before I even explain it.

If I create two files on the UNIX file system, "MYFILE" and
"myfile".
Windows shows me both of them, and I can work with either of them
in some cases, but windows can "get confused" about which file
it's
working with.

Per the samba FAQ, I have my global settings in smb.conf set as

	short preserve case = yes
	preserve case = yes

Even still, it is not safe to work with UNIX-stored files whose only
filename difference is the case of the characters used in the filename.

Is this simply a limitation of samba/windows. Or is there something else I can
do in smb.conf (or on the windows client side) to get windows to function
unambiguously as a truly case-sensitive environment (like UNIX)?

Jay


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Jay Thompson
Support Systems Analyst, Sr.
Northern Arizona University
College of Ecosystem Science and Management
J.Thompson@NAU.EDU
(520) 523-8033

Jay Thompson wrote:
> 
> For brevity, I won't include much detail in the following question
about
> samba/windows case sensitivity. I'm assuming that someone out there
> has spent significant time working with this issue and knows what I'm
> dealing with before I even explain it.
> 
> If I create two files on the UNIX file system, "MYFILE" and
"myfile".
> Windows shows me both of them, and I can work with either of them
> in some cases, but windows can "get confused" about which file
it's
> working with.
> 
> Per the samba FAQ, I have my global settings in smb.conf set as
> 
>         short preserve case = yes
>         preserve case = yes
> 
> Even still, it is not safe to work with UNIX-stored 
> files whose only filename difference is the case of 
> the characters used in the filename.
See 'mangle case' option in smb.conf(5) man page.




Cheers, jerry
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