Letter case not preserved

[Ben Kelley]

Hi.

This is not a bug. The default action (so I've found out) is to force "short"
names (ones that fit into 8.3) to the default case. If you set "short preserve
case = yes" then short file name are not forced to the default case.

With both "preserve case = yes" and "short preserve case = yes" then all files
created in mixed-case aware apps keep their correct case on the Unix side - even
for "short" filenames. They don't get forced to their default case with this
option set.

                - Ben Kelley.

Fred Viles wrote:

> On 22 Sep 98, at 11:28, Ben Kelley wrote about
>     "Re: Letter case not preserved":
>
> | > > All files transferred to my Samba server end up with lower case on the
> | > > Unix box.  Case is not preserved from NT to Unix.  For example, if I
> | > > copy C:\Temp\MyFile to a directory on the Samba server, it
> | > > ends up there
> | > > as myfile.
> |...
> | > Try preserve case = yes.  The default case for Samba is lower case (I
> | > think) but that is configurable too (default case = upper)
> |...
> | I've come across this problem also. I have:
> |
> |     mangle case = no
> |     preserve case = yes
> |
> | set, but all files seem to get created in lower case. Am I missing
> | something?
> |...
>
> "preserve case" applies to "long" names.  There is a seperate option,
> "short preserve case", which is documented as controlling whether
> "short" names are converted to the default case or left alone.
>
> According to the docs, "short" names are all uppercase and within the
> 8.3 DOS convention.  Since DOS and Windows 16-bit apps will always
> pass all filenames as uppercase, it can make a lot of sense to have
> "short preserve case = off" if you create files with DOS apps and
> then use them from Unix.  Otherwise (for example) all the source
> files you create with your DOS editor will be named SOURCE.C instead
> of source.c.
>
> However, there appears to be a bug in the implementation of "short
> preserve case" (at least in 1.9.18p10).  Contrary to the docs, *all*
> 8.3 names are forced to the default case, even mixed-case names.
> This is not what is wanted, IMO.
>
> The following patch to server.c fixed this problem for me:
>
> --- orig/server.c       Wed Aug 19 16:41:53 1998
> +++ server.c    Fri Nov 27 22:36:18 1998
> @@ -551,8 +551,13 @@
>        pstrcpy(saved_last_component, name);
>    }
>
> -  if (!case_sensitive &&
> -      (!case_preserve || (is_8_3(name, False) && !short_case_preserve)))
> +  /*
> +  ** force name to default case if desired.  !strhaslower() was added to
> +  ** match docs - 8.3 names are not forced to default unless they are all
> +  ** uppercase.
> +  */
> +  if (!case_sensitive && (!case_preserve ||
> +      (!short_case_preserve && is_8_3(name, False) && !strhaslower(name))))
>      strnorm(name);
>
>    /* check if it's a printer file */

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