[Samba] v3.2.0 and MS-DOS: Directories must be upper-case??

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Jul 25 17:09:42 GMT 2008


On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:33:43AM -0500, Daniel Johnson wrote:
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> I have an MS-DOS client (Win98SE boot disk) connecting to a Samba v3.2.0
> server which is a member of an AD domain (WinNT 5.0/2000 DCs).  If it
> tries to create a file in a directory, it will fail if the path is not
> all-upper-case.  For instance:  J:\Bk-Full\DJohnson\S1565\  will fail but
> J:\BK-FULL\DJOHNSON\S1565\ will succeed.
> 
> When it 'fails' the desired file IS created, but contains nothing (0
> bytes) and the DOS computer returns an error.  If I try the simple command
>   ver > test.txt
> the message will be "File creation error."  Attempts to delete the file
> from DOS give "Sharing violation reading device CON; Abort, Retry, Ignore,
> Fail".

Can you get me a debug level 10 log from smbd of

ver > test.txt
del test.txt

from the MS-DOS client please ?

Thanks,

Jeremy.


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