[Samba] Problem with duplicate directories

[John Benedetto]

This is an example of why you should not access the same filespace via two 
different filesytems...

What your user SHOULD do is smbmount the samba space and copy from there... 
Having the space mounted OUT to Samba (Windows) clients, and your user 
accessing the files from the native Unix filesystem is causing your 
problems.

At least I _think_ so.

- john

--On Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:08 PM +0100 Urban Widmark 
<urban at teststation.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Pedro Nuno da Costa wrote:
>
>> and i execute this one to copy the files,
>>
>> cp -apv /mnt/actualiza/. /home/ac/ >> /home/copias/actualiza.txt
>>
>> he copys all files but if the directories have different case (example
>> source (AaA) destination (AAA) ) he creates a new folder and the clients
>> with W95 only can access to one of them.
>
> Not sure if I follow you, but does this example match what you are seeing?
>
> Before copying the dirs contain these files:
>
> /home/ac:
> dirA
> dirB
> fileX
>
> /mnt/actualiza:
> dira
> dirb
> filex
>
> After copy /home/ac contains:
> dirA
> dira
> dirB
> dirb
> fileX
> filex
>
> And you would like dira from "/mnt/actualiza" to match dirA in "/home/ac"?
>
> The filesystem you use for /home/ac is case sensitive so AaA and AAA are
> different filenames. Perhaps if you used a case in-sensitive one instead?
> (No, I have no suggestions)
>
>
> You could create a wrapper script around cp that translates filenames to
> upper/lower case as appropriate and rewrite the paths it uses. Or you
> could get the source to the cp command and change that.
>
> This isn't really a samba problem, it is simply that cp and most unix
> filesystems are case sensitive. Perhaps samba has some option to do "name
> mangling" when more than one dir has the same name?
> (in a case-less comparison)
>
> /Urban