Case sensitivity and Win95
Glen GIBB
grg at ecr.mu.oz.au
Fri May 1 03:20:41 GMT 1998
Tim,
You have probably received a tonne of repllies already, but here's mine
anyway.
In the smb.conf file, set the following:
preserve case = yes
You can also use
short preserve case = yes
Hopefully these should help
Glen Gibb
Ridley College
> The company I work for uses samba to allow access to Unix files from PCs
> running Windows 95.
>
> When I create a file from my PC on the samba drive with a name including
> upper case letters, the name is forced into all lower case: I cannot
> create a file name containing an upper case letter. From Unix, I can
> create (and see from my PC) mixed-case file names.
>
> I asked my system administrator whether he could configure samba to
> allow mixed-case files, but he says "no: it is a property of Windows
> 95".
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim Wilson
> Symbionics Ltd
> mailto:tdw@<first word of company name>.co.uk
>
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