[Samba] Re: Samba 3.0.8pre1 Available for Download

Norman Zhang norman.zhang at rd.arkonnetworks.com
Sat Sep 25 01:13:44 GMT 2004


Hi Jerry,

> - ---------------------------
> Change in Winbindd Behavior
> - ---------------------------
> 
> All usernames returned by winbindd are now converted to lower
> case for better consistency.  This means any winbind installation
> relying on the winbind username will need to rename existing
> directories and/or files based on the username (%u and %U) to lower
> case (e.g. mv $name `echo $name | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`).  This may
> include mail spool files, home directories, valid user lines in
> smb.conf, etc....

Would this solve the bug/behavior that I notice after upgrading from 
3.0.2 to 3.0.6? My original post can be found at, 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=109598567508194&w=2

Regards,
Norman



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