Strange problem

[Rashkae]

Windows is not case sensitive, that means, to Windows, mail and Mail
are both exactly the same folder.  For compatability reasons, by
default, Samba is not case sensitive. Therefore, when receiving a
request for directory Mail or mail, Samba chooses whichever folder it
finds that first matches any case of mail. (As to why the order the
directories are scanned changed, I cannot comment.) There are options
to make Samba case sensitive, but this is not advisable, since it will
break many Windows programs that do not expect it. (For example, a
program that saves its configuration as something.ini then later tries
to open it as SOMETHING.INI.)

To make a long story short, the answer to your question is "don't do
it." Remain the way you are with mail and email directories.


On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Paul Crittenden wrote:

Good morning all,
I ran into something last evening I had never seen before and wonder if any
of you had. We have a user who had two folders with similar names in his
share. One was mail and the Mail. Until yesterday he was able to save stuff
in Mail and then retrieve it. However, yesterday something strange
happened. The contents of both mail Mail were the same, at least on the PC
side. When I went into the UNIX side and looked at things the contents were
different. What I did to fix the problem was to move the folder called Mail
to one called email and then he could see the files he had saved
previously. I hope this makes sense and can anyone explain why this
happened. He has been using the previous setup for several months with no
problems.
Thanks,

Paul Crittenden
Computer System Manager
Simpson College
email: crittend at simpson.edu
Phone: (515)961-1680

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