NT4 client case issues...

[Christopher R. Hertel]

If you access a NetBIOS service using the IP address, NT will want to have
a NetBIOS name for the machine, yes?  That means that it will need to do a
NetBIOS name lookup, probably via an Adapter Status call to the IP address.

My guess is that the code that does the reverse lookup also enumerates the
shares and (for no useful reason) the programmer lower-cased them all. 

Chris -)-----

> On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> > Matt Chapman wrote:
> > > 
> > > NT4 workstation, any service pack -> Any SMB server
> > > 
> > > Open server by NetBIOS or DNS name... share names are in proper case.
> > > Open server by IP address... share names are all lowercased!
> > 
> > Matt,
> > 
> > I couldn't recreate this against from NT4SP4 Wks to Samba 
> > 2.0.3.  Share names looked file as well as directory names.
> 
> i've seen it happen too.
> 


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