samba - Feb 2008 - After migrating from Samba 2 to Samba 3 - home share names are case sensitive

Hello!

We have several sun solaris servers which are now serve Samba 3 services.
For 2 weeks we migrate all servers from Samba 2 to Samba 3.
After the upgrade to Samba 3 all shares generated by [home]-section in
smb.conf have case sensitive names.

For example:

Besides root user john exists on the server and has a home folder.

If user john want to access his share with a Windows client he use the path:

\\server\john

This works great.

But if he want to access his share using the path:

\\server\JOHN

he can't access the share.

Samba 2 doesn't differ between the two paths.

Other shares on the server (no [home] share) for example [smb_test] can be
accessed by typing:

\\server\SMB_TEST or
\\server\smb_test

My [home]-section on the server:
 [homes]
        comment = UNIX Home Directory for %S
        valid users = %S
        writeable = yes
        browseable = no


In my opinion there aren't any special configuration in this section and of
course no change since migration from samba 2 to samba 3.

Are there any solution for this problem? Or is it a samba 3 security feature
;-)

Thanks for help!

Best regards,

Andreas Schmidl

Andreas Schmidl wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> We have several sun solaris servers which are now serve Samba 3 services.
> For 2 weeks we migrate all servers from Samba 2 to Samba 3.
> After the upgrade to Samba 3 all shares generated by [home]-section in
> smb.conf have case sensitive names.
> 
> For example:
> 
> Besides root user john exists on the server and has a home folder.
> 
> If user john want to access his share with a Windows client he use the
path:
> 
> \\server\john
> 
> This works great.
> 
> But if he want to access his share using the path:
> 
> \\server\JOHN
> 
> he can't access the share.
> 
> Samba 2 doesn't differ between the two paths.
> 
> Other shares on the server (no [home] share) for example [smb_test] can be
> accessed by typing:
> 
> \\server\SMB_TEST or
> \\server\smb_test
> 
> My [home]-section on the server:
>  [homes]
>         comment = UNIX Home Directory for %S
>         valid users = %S
>         writeable = yes
>         browseable = no
> 
> 
> In my opinion there aren't any special configuration in this section
and of
> course no change since migration from samba 2 to samba 3.
> 
> Are there any solution for this problem? Or is it a samba 3 security
feature
> ;-)
> 
Try taking out the valid users = %S and see if the problem persists.

Anyway, I know that without that, case doesn't matter on my machine.
Not an inherent function.  There are other things the %S inhibits as well.

Regards, Doug