[WIN NT] uppercase
Stephen L Arnold
arnold.steve at ensco.com
Fri Jan 22 19:27:59 GMT 1999
When the world was young, Benjamin Scott carved some runes like
this:
> Subject: Re: [WIN NT] uppercase
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Tajthy Tamas wrote:
> > I have a problem. If I create a file under UNIX (samba 1.18.xx) with capital
> > letters in its name and look at this file under NT the name become small
> > letters. Not under Win95.
>
> This is a "feature" of the IE4 shell. If you don't like it, talk to
> Microsoft. :-)
Somewhere in the samba docs (I forget where) is a discussion of the
case-handling in windoze. AFAIK, none of them are case-sensitive
(while unix/linux/etc are). The pain-in-the-ass part comes because
win9x/NT are "case-remembering" (a silly behavior IMHO), ie, if you
create a file under win95 called "XXX-lower.ext" it will be
displayed that way in explorer, but to the file system it's really
all the same case. I've also noticed that sometimes windoze will
upper-case the first letter and sometimes not. Just another
example of what total pieces of crap M$ products really are...
If you use the recommended (default) settings for case handling in
smb.conf, at least windoze exploder should display the case of unix
files correctly.
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