[Samba] dos dir list issues

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:08:45PM +0000, srinivas aradhyula wrote:
> 
> i have a samba running on the linux file systems.
> from a windows box i mapped(z:)  to the linux file systems.
>  
> from the command prompt when cd to z: and make a dir 
>  
> the output  is not sorted by the name where as on linux it is coming fine.
>  
> dos ex:
> Z:\5_8_0_5\Base\TravelersCL>dir *.sql Volume in drive Z is oracle Volume Serial Number is 7B2F-0877
>  Directory of Z:\5_8_0_5\Base\TravelersCL
> 08/11/2008  05:14 PM             2,401 6000_COMPILE_STATUS.SQL08/11/2008  05:14 PM               115 1000_DB_ENV.SQL
>  
>  
> from linux
> [oracle at rhel_srini TravelersCL]$ ls -l *.SQL-r-xr--r--  1 oracle oracle  115 Aug 11 17:14 1000_DB_ENV.SQL-r-xr--r--  1 oracle oracle 2401 Aug 11 17:14 6000_COMPILE_STATUS.SQL
> why is the sort order different for the client

There is no guarenteed sort order in directory listing
from CIFS.

Jeremy.