samba - Feb 2007 - Cannot change case of existing file names

Server OS: Linux / Fedora Core 6
Samba version: 3.0.24, 3.0.23 (binary packages for FC6)
Samba configuration: All defaults
Client OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP4

In recent versions of Samba (including 3.0.24), attempting to rename a
file to a new name that differs only in case appears to have no effect:

X:\tmp>echo . > FILE.txt

X:\tmp>dir
02/05/2007  08:21p                   4 FILE.txt

X:\tmp>ren FILE.txt file.txt

X:\tmp>dir
02/05/2007  08:21p                   4 FILE.txt

I'm pretty sure this worked in older versions.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

-- 
Jordan Russell

what are your settings concerning case mangling?

cheerz

Jordan Russell wrote:
> Server OS: Linux / Fedora Core 6
> Samba version: 3.0.24, 3.0.23 (binary packages for FC6)
> Samba configuration: All defaults
> Client OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP4
> 
> In recent versions of Samba (including 3.0.24), attempting to rename a
> file to a new name that differs only in case appears to have no effect:
> 
> X:\tmp>echo . > FILE.txt
> 
> X:\tmp>dir
> 02/05/2007  08:21p                   4 FILE.txt
> 
> X:\tmp>ren FILE.txt file.txt
> 
> X:\tmp>dir
> 02/05/2007  08:21p                   4 FILE.txt
> 
> I'm pretty sure this worked in older versions.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
-- 
Michael Gasch
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Evolution (IT Staff)
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany

Phone: 49 (0)341 - 3550 137
        49 (0)341 - 3550 374

Fax:   49 (0)341 - 3550 399

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Jordan Russell wrote:
> In recent versions of Samba (including 3.0.24), attempting 
> to rename a file to a new name that differs only in
> case appears to have no effect:
If it did ever work, it was a fluke.  Renaming
files to different case on a caseless filesystem
(or filesystem protocol) doesn't make much sense.





cheers, jerry
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:33:35PM -0600, Jordan Russell
wrote:
> Server OS: Linux / Fedora Core 6
> Samba version: 3.0.24, 3.0.23 (binary packages for FC6)
> Samba configuration: All defaults
> Client OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP4
> 
> In recent versions of Samba (including 3.0.24), attempting to rename a
> file to a new name that differs only in case appears to have no effect:
> 
> X:\tmp>echo . > FILE.txt
> 
> X:\tmp>dir
> 02/05/2007  08:21p                   4 FILE.txt
> 
> X:\tmp>ren FILE.txt file.txt
> 
> X:\tmp>dir
> 02/05/2007  08:21p                   4 FILE.txt
> 
> I'm pretty sure this worked in older versions.
> Any ideas?
I've just fixed this in SVN. Turns out it was side-effect
breakage when we turned on root dfs by default. That was
a fun one - allowed me to clean up some old DFS code :-).

Jeremy.