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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