Case sensitivity

thwartedefforts at wonky.org thwartedefforts at wonky.org
Mon Aug 31 04:59:21 GMT 1998


>I have had a bit of a problem getting consistency in filenames between NTFS
>and HPUX-Samba shares. Every time files are moved or copied to the
>samba-shares they convert all cases to lower. I have put the following in to
>smb.conf
>    case sensitivity = yes
>    preserve case = yes
>    short preserve case = yes
>which I put in the global section and in to several of the shares sections
>also, but the filenames always convert to lower cases.

I'm having a similar problem.  If a filename contains all the same case (long or short filename), NT(SP3) shows it with the first letter capitalized only, which makes actually doing anything with this file very difficult.  I have a hunch there is a registry setting which would effect this.


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