[Samba] Username Case Sensitivity vs. Lower Casing

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Marcel Ziswiler wrote:

| So I upgraded to latest Samba 3.0.20 and indeed the
| compatibility issues with  2k3sp1 went away, but another
| thing I noticed is that winbind seems to have
| reverted back to pre 3.0.8 case sensitive username behavior.
| I had to rename all  the directories and stuff
| again. Unfortunately now if somebody logs in using a
| lower case username it half way lets him log on, but then
| gdm hangs. The only  way to successfully log on now is by
| exactly using the casing on the username as
| originally specified in the Windows Domain.
|
| Is this expected behavior? Why did you guys decide to
| change the username casing  behavior again? Is there an
| easy way out (e.g. to avoid having to rename all the
| directories and stuff again and more importantly to
| avoid hanged logons if not  using the exact casing on
| the username)?

I found it.  Sorry.  Try the winbindd patch at
http://www.samba.org/samba/patches/

I think we also have a regression in the group name
not being lower cased.  Can you confirm?




cheers, jerry

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