[H-GEN] Windows Questions (was: Case Sensitivity)

[Mark Suter]

Folks,

David Duffy <avd at audiovisualdevices.com.au> wrote:

> We are talking about a Linux machine serving to that other OS.
> I just looked at the Linux box and the case there is upper for the
> files I just played around with in ***dows. I guess I can rename them
> on the Linux box but that's not really convenient for everyday use.
> BTW, I have RH6.1 - is it worth upgrading Samba to newest one?

Whilst running a recent version may solve other problems and
should generally increase performance a little, it isn't
necessary to solve this problem.

Samba has several "Name Mangling" options that can be used to
solve this problem.  Search in smb.conf(5) via man(1) or at the
following site.

    http://au1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html

For example, the following would force all new files to be
created with lower case filenames.

    mangle case = yes
    default case = lower
    preserve case = no
    short preserve case = no

Yours sincerely,

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