W2K joining SMB Server

[Eric Pilger]

I don't have a handle on all the details of this. However, does the fact that UNIX ignores
case in usernames bear on this? This is a hold over from the old days when some terminals
could only do upper case. If you enter an uppercase username on some versions of UNIX, they
will automatically map everything to lowercase. Usernames therefore needed to be case
insensitive.

Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote:

> Bonjour Jean:
>         "I'lls y a un possion dans la poubelle!" yes i know very silly.  We used to
> get anouncements like that in highschool.  (all the time) I went to french
> imersion for many many years and am fluent in the launguage however i could
> not write it to save my life.  Cultre aside, I need a hand with the latest
> CVS,
> I'd like to thank you for your time as i am sure you don't have much of it
> (much like the rest of us.)  I have a couple questions.  I've been having
> trouble adding users to the newest version apperantly no capitol letters in
> the logon name, it's quite odd.  Also shoul there be any entries in
> user.map?   (cause mine is empty) and could that very well be my problem
> (lack of usernames in /usr/local/samba/lib/users.map?) and if so what is the
> syntax involved?  here is a good example.
> now i've renamed passwd cmd to passwd.old and symlinked passwd to smbpasswd.
> OK?<-yes i am weird one of the many W2K workarounds sent to me was to do
> exactly that.
>

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Eric J. Pilger
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