[Samba] 4.20: case (in)sensitive is broken

Michael Tokarev mjt at tls.msk.ru
Fri Jun 7 13:57:25 UTC 2024


07.06.2024 10:34, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This is a heads-up for now, more debugging to follow.
> 
> I had to downgrade samba from 4.20.1 to 4.19.6 because 4.20
> broke case insensitive file access entirely.  Only exact case
> filename works, no matter which value is set in "case sensitive"
> parameter.
> 
> In 4.19, things works again.

It boils down to having wide links = yes (and wide links = no).
Without wide links samba is case-insensitive by default.
But with wide links enabled, it is always case-sensitive.





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