PLEASE : Help with filename-collisions

[CAD-Superuser]

Hello samba-users,

I have a problem with mangled-name-collision :

I have 2 files with long filenames on a samba-server (V2.07, solaris).
The filenames are 
 
xxxxx_APB.h and xxxxx_SEL.h
 
For some reason the first part of the name has to be xxxxx_
 
The mangle name of both files is XXXXX_~5X.H (look at the fileproperties in
explorer)
That means to me, that the hash-algorithm,
which generates the MS-DOS-name is too weak and produced a name-collision.

That happens not so rarely as the samba-docu says. In our environment
it happens every few weeks. We develop large 
software-projects and the names of many *.h-files sound similar.
 
Occasionaly we have to use old 16-bit-applications and then we have trouble
with these files.
 
Are there other smb.conf-parameters to enhance the hash-algorithm to
avoid the name-collision ?
 
Or can someone PLEASE rewrite the mangling-functions (I think in
smbd/mangle.c) so that the samba-mangling-behaviour is the
same as in a real NT-server ? (I'm only a sysadmin and dont want to
modify the sources)

A true Windows-NT-server doesn't have this problem.

I posted this problem a few month ago to the samba-list, but never
get an answer.


Regards,
 
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Peter Pellkofer
Siemens AG, A&D GT 23
Gleiwitzer Str. 555
90475 Nuernberg-Moorenbrunn
 
peter.pellkofer at nbgm.siemens.de
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