Sorting Filenames - SMB

Björn Jacke bj at SerNet.DE
Tue Jan 18 03:37:38 MST 2011


On 2011-01-18 at 11:10 +0100 Francesco Alfano sent off:
> To me it looks like file names are not sorted when accessing them via
> samba shares, but it's works on samba 3.0.24
> 
> If i do a dir c: for instance filenames are sorted, but if I do the same
> on a samba share using a Visula Basic 6 program they are not sorted.
> This causes some problems for me and I'd like to know if there is a
> way to make either windows sort them
> on its own (not in the explorer, but for every programm accessing these
> shares! ) or make samba sort them before sending them to the windows
> machine.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.

vfs_dirsort might be what you're looking for.

Björn


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