[Samba] Mangling problem

[John H Terpstra]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Ivan Gustin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a strange problem with Samba on RedHat 7.2. In one directory there is
> many files with similar long file name (10+ digit file name for many
> pictures). When I dir this directory, I can see many files with different
> long file name, but with exactly the same short file name. There is about
> 3-5 files with the same 8.3 DOS file name.
>
> I really don't understand how can it happen and what is cause of that
> problem. I have Samba 2.2.3, so I put Samba 2.2.7, but the problem is still
> the same. I can't say that is mangling bug within Samba, but I never see
> such
> situation.

Have you seen this problem on MS Windows NT4/2000/XP or is it unique to
samba?

- John T.

>
> Any ideas?
>
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