Samba uppercase / lowercase issue.

[Mark Parsons]

I am running HP11.11 with Samba 3.0.7 and I am having a problem with uppercase and lowercase characters. Samba only seems to like filenames with the same case and we have an application that looks for a file thats in uppercase but then has a lowercase prefix and then it uses this within the application that the file is used for....

i.e.

The file searched for is of the format BWXXXXXX.txt but Samba creates files (depending on what you've set) as BW123456.TXT or bw123456.txt.

Is there another setting that can accomodate this? I am about to upgrade to the current release of Samba. Is this issue fixed, is there a new variable to be set for this issue etc etc?

Kind Regards,

Mark Parsons.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Mark,

There was a thread about this on Thursday. It looked a lot like this, even the same version of Samba.

http://software.hp.com
Search for CIFS.

You will see server and client.

Download and install both. Client installation will require a reboot.

I experienced this problem and solved it with an upgrade.

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[Mark Parsons]

Yes indeed - Thursdays was about carriage returns in Unix.

[Mark Parsons]

Is there anything that needs to be changed from the default to accomodate this?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom again.

the smb.conf file does have a lot of commentary in it, and the default is to respect case sensitivity. If this has been changed, you may need to change it again.

I did solve this problem once on HP-UX via upgrade and a look at smb.conf does not show me a toggle. But I'm looking at a Linux system with a much more up to date version of Samba.

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[Mark Parsons]

Issue now outdated.