[Samba] DOS filename behavior?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:49:37PM -0700, Tom Dickson wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Is this standard?
> 
> Q:\temp>dir
> ~ Volume in drive Q is tomsshare
> ~ Volume Serial Number is 0B97-4CF6
> 
> 05/19/2004  01:23p      <DIR>          Thomas Dickson Directory
> 
> ~               0 File(s)              0 bytes
> ~               3 Dir(s)  719,507,685,376 bytes free
> 
> Q:\temp>dir /x
> ~ Volume in drive Q is tomsshare
> ~ Volume Serial Number is 0B97-4CF6
> 
> 05/19/2004  01:23p      <DIR>          T8UKFI~1        Thomas Dickson
> Directory
> 
> ~               0 File(s)              0 bytes
> ~               3 Dir(s)  719,507,685,376 bytes free
> 
> The "T8UKFI~1" name seems weird to me, as windows would call it
> "THOMAS~1". Is there a way to make Samba act like windows in this
> regard? The Samba HOWTO book seems to imply that I should see "THOMA~01"
> or somesuch. Could unicode be confusing the algorithm?

By design with mangling method = hash2. To get older
(less correct) behaviour set mangling method = hash.

Jeremy.