What is the case for preserving case under Samba ...

John E. Malmberg wb8tyw at qsl.net
Mon Jul 8 18:15:03 GMT 2002


Jay Ts wrote:
> 
> You mean, you want case-sensitive clients to receive preserve-cased
> filenames, and non-case-sensitive clients to receive default-cased
> filenames ... correct?
> 
> That is, there are:
> 
> 	- local Unix processes, on the Samba host, and ...
> 	- NFS clients, which "want" the case to be preserved.
> 	- SMB/CIFS (and other) clients, which do not care about case
         - Non UNIX SAMBA hosts on case insensitive file systems.
> 
> and that the idea here is to provide each with what works best for them.

-John
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