On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:35:46PM +0200, Dieter Stampfer
wrote:> Hi all,
>
> while working with Netbench I've discovered that mangled directory
names
> clash rather frequently with Samba 2.2.4:
>
> If I take an NT box, open the cmd prompt and make the following
> directories on a Samba share, client100 and client121, both mangle to
> CLIEN~GH.
>
> If I create directories client100 through client130 I see 11 clashes
> altogether:
>
> CLIEN~GH: client100 client121
> CLIEN~MF: client101 client120
> CLIEN~4L: client102 client123
> CLIEN~AJ: client103 client122
> CLIEN~ZP: client104 client125
> CLIEN~$N: client105 client124
> CLIEN~NT: client106 client127
> CLIEN~TR: client107 client126
> CLIEN~BX: client108 client129
> CLIEN~HV: client109 client128
> CLIEN~JG: client110
> CLIEN~PE: client111 client130
> CLIEN~7K: client112
> CLIEN~DI: client113
> CLIEN~!O: client114
> CLIEN~1M: client115
> CLIEN~QS: client116
> CLIEN~WQ: client117
> CLIEN~EW: client118
> CLIEN~KU: client119
>
> All mangling settings in smb.conf are at their default. Is this a known
> feature? Does anyone know a workaround?
This is a problem with the current mangling algorithm used in 2.2.4.
There is a much better one available for 3.0. Gerry - I could back
port this to 2.2.5 reasonably easily.....
Comments ?
Jeremy.