[Samba] 3.0.7 name collision!

[William Jojo]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 05:38:57PM -0400, William Jojo wrote:
> >
> >
> > Still gathering data on this one, but it's easy to reproduce the case
> > insensitive collision.
> >
> >
> > AIX 5.2 Samba 3.0.7.
> >
> > in unix create two dirs on a user's [homes] share:
> >
> > CISS-102
> > ciss-102
> >
> > put files from windows (I used XP sp1) into just one of them, then go and
> > view the other. they have the same contents. on fresh smbd, if you start
> > with the empty dir then both appear empty.
> >
> > When the student copied a file from one dir to the other in windows you
> > get "file" plus "Copy of file" in both. Not good.
> >
> > I'll have more details posted when I'm done with class tonight as I am
> > creating this in development so I can get a log level 10 for just one
> > station.
>
> Well you're violating the contract Samba has with the client here.
> If you do this, and you leave Samba telling the client that you are
> case insensitive but case preserving then you're lying to the client - there's
> no way such a dual directory could be created from the client, so no
> wonder things get confused.
>
> What do you think should be the correct action here ?
>
> Jeremy.
>

Jeremy,

Thanks for the reply. A few hours after I sent out the email I realized my
real problem is allowing students to create directories in Unix that are
the same as their [homes] share paths.

Samba's behaviour is of course correct.

Sorry for wasting your time on this one.



Bill