[Samba] Re: Cannot change case of existing file names

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 01:07:48 GMT 2007


On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:22:35 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:33:35PM -0600, Jordan Russell wrote:
>> 
>> In recent versions of Samba (including 3.0.24), attempting to rename a
>> file to a new name that differs only in case appears to have no effect:
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure this worked in older versions. Any ideas?
> 
> I've just fixed this in SVN. Turns out it was side-effect breakage when we
> turned on root dfs by default. That was a fun one - allowed me to clean up
> some old DFS code :-).
> 
> Jeremy.

I noticed the problem and came across this thread after some searching. 
Is it correct that the fix will be in 3.0.25 but not in 3.0.24?  So, if I
want to correct the problem now, I would need to compile samba from source
with the patched msdfs.c ?

Akemi



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