[Samba] directory list is not alphabetically sorted

[Alain.Gorlier at altissemiconductor.com]

Hi,

Created some files and directories on a Samba 3.0.22 Linux server  from an 
Windows Samba client using this chronological order :
cc
aa
zz
bb
yy
ww
rr
ss
tt (directory)
mm (directory)
oo (directory)
jj (directory)

The directory list on Windows Samba client (via dir command without any 
options) shows the following:

Y:\toto>dir
 Volume in drive Y is MXX
 Volume Serial Number is 12E4-00F3

 Directory of Y:\toto

11/06/2007  15:18    <DIR>          .
11/06/2007  15:01    <DIR>          ..
11/06/2007  15:01                12 zz
11/06/2007  15:18    <DIR>          oo
11/06/2007  15:00                11 cc
11/06/2007  15:18    <DIR>          jj
11/06/2007  15:04                 9 rr
11/06/2007  15:18    <DIR>          mm
11/06/2007  15:04                12 ss
11/06/2007  15:03                11 ww
11/06/2007  15:01                13 aa
11/06/2007  15:03                16 yy
11/06/2007  15:01                 9 bb
11/06/2007  15:18    <DIR>          tt
               8 File(s)             93 bytes
               6 Dir(s)   2 609 844 224 bytes free

Same behaviour with an OS2 Samba client.

Using an OS2 Lan server instead Linux Samba server, the dir command 
without any option, show an alphabetically sorted list across files and 
directories.
Some applications rely on this alphabetical order. (for good or bad 
reasons...)
Is there a way to recover the same behaviour ?

Using the ls -l command on the linux fileserver, the directory list is 
alphabetically sorted : (just what we want)

[B2:fsetssd1l1:root] > ls -l
total 48
-rwxrwxr-x  1 ADMINOCS shetssgrp   13 jun 11 15:01 aa
-rwxrwxr-x  1 ADMINOCS shetssgrp    9 jun 11 15:01 bb
-rwxrwxr-x  1 ADMINOCS shetssgrp   11 jun 11 15:00 cc
drwxrwxr-x  2 ADMINOCS shetssgrp 4096 jun 11 15:18 jj
drwxrwxr-x  2 ADMINOCS shetssgrp 4096 jun 11 15:18 mm
drwxrwxr-x  2 ADMINOCS shetssgrp 4096 jun 11 15:18 oo
-rwxrwxr-x  1 ADMINOCS shetssgrp    9 jun 11 15:04 rr
-rwxrwxr-x  1 ADMINOCS shetssgrp   12 jun 11 15:04 ss
drwxrwxr-x  2 ADMINOCS shetssgrp 4096 jun 11 15:18 tt
-rwxrwxr-x  1 ADMINOCS shetssgrp   11 jun 11 15:03 ww
-rwxrwxr-x  1 ADMINOCS shetssgrp   16 jun 11 15:03 yy
-rwxrwxr-x  1 ADMINOCS shetssgrp   12 jun 11 15:01 zz

Why does Samba & Linux not show the same order ?

Regards,