samba do not preserve case Solved

Shack shackhass at usa.net
Fri Oct 2 07:16:47 GMT 1998


My problem was solved by applying both the preserve case and short preserve case. i removed other options like case sensitive,
 manged names, and mangled case.

Thanks 

Muhammad Shakeel

From:           	Peter Debus <pdebus at turing.une.edu.au>
Subject:        	Re: samba do not preserve case
To:             	shackhass at usa.net
Date sent:      	Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:54:00 +3400 (EST)
Copies to:      	samba at samba.anu.edu.au

> Have you tried "short preserve case" ?
> 
> The default is "short preserve case = no" for file names that conform
> to the 8.3 format. This will convert file names to the "default case".
> See "default case" option in the smb.conf man page.
> 
> Peter Debus
> School of Mathematical Computer Sciences
> University of New England
> Armidale NSW 
> Australia
> 
> Ph: 61 (0)267 73 2412 Fax: 61 (0)267 73 3312
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have installed samba-1.9.18p8 on Linux server. it is 
> > visible in Win95 system but when i copy a file from 
> > Win95 to its samba shared home directory. Samba 
> > copies it successfully but do not preserve the case 
> > i.e it converts name of the file  to smaller case in Linux 
> > system. While when i copy files from Linux to Win95 it 
> > preserves the case.
> > 
> > I tried with preserve case = yes in smb.conf but not 
> > succeeded
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > 
> > shack
> > 
> > 
> 




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