SMBcreate under Samba lower-cases names, it seems

Andrew Tridgell tridge at samba.anu.edu.au
Thu Sep 24 04:59:59 GMT 1998


> All uppercase characters in file names were case folded to lowercase
> characters when the file was created with SMBcreat calls.
> 
> Is this the correct behaviour?  I would have hoped that the case would be
> preserved on an OS that could do that.

it is correct only if you don't have the "preserve case" option
set. For Samba 2.0 the default is to preserve case. In 1.9.18 the
defaults were different.

I just tested this and 2.0 does seem to do things right, so I think
your smb.conf might be the problem.


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