[Samba] known bug in samba: Re: Winbind user/group name case change

[Volker Lendecke]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 03:46:58PM -0700, Linda W wrote:
> Lars Hanke wrote:
> >My Synology NAS runs Samba 3.6.9 and maps accounts using winbind.
> >It is joined to my samba4 AD. I set "winbind use default
> >domain=yes" and have no entry for "winbind normalize names".
> >Strangely a group like "Domain Users" appears as "domain users",
> >i.e. in all lower case. A translation which breaks idmapd for
> >NFSv4.
> >
> >My Debian Wheezy 3.6.6 behaves the same way. Is there some option
> >to keep the case?
> >
> >Alternatively, does someone know whether it is possible to tell
> >idmapd to ignore case?
> ----
>    This is a known bug in samba -- "name mangling".  MS fixed this back in
> 2000, but samba has remained steadfast.  It wreaks havok with linux
> systems --
> especially ones trying to support MS systems.
> 
> Besides the user& groupnames, system and domain names also cause problems.
> 
> I still have 3 different entries for many of my hosts so linux can
> compensate
> for this bug.    I thought this was supposed to be fixed going with
> 4.x and one of the reasons
> for not fixing it in earlier versions was the 3.x series didn't know
> how to do unicode
> capitalization, but theoretically in 4.x that shouldn't be a problem
> anymore.
> 
> Anyyone else know if the name mangling of servers/systems, names and
> groups was
> fixed in 4.x?

https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2014-September/102352.html

Volker

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