samba 3 ignores short preserve case?

Don Eisele eisele at math.ksu.edu
Wed May 25 15:42:58 UTC 2005


Basically, I have a samba server running that has some windows systems connecting
that run older DOS programs.  short preserve case should make it so that the
8.3 filenames that get created drop to lowercase, (as per the default case
setting), but it has no effect.




# rpm -q -a |grep samba
redhat-config-samba-1.0.16-2
samba-common-3.0.9-1.3E.3
samba-client-3.0.9-1.3E.3
samba-swat-3.0.9-1.3E.3
samba-3.0.9-1.3E.3


Linux archimedes 2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 23:35:44 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 5)

testparm output:
# Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = MATHEMATICS
        netbios name = SAMBA
        netbios aliases = archimedes, newton
        server string = Mathematics File Server
        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        max log size = 50
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
        mangle prefix = 5
        add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u
        logon script = network.bat
        logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U\.Windows\profile
        logon drive = H:
        logon home = \\%L\%U
        domain logons = Yes
        os level = 199
        preferred master = Yes
        domain master = Yes
        wins support = Yes
        cups options = raw
        short preserve case = No

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        read only = No
        create mask = 0700
        directory mask = 0700
        browseable = No

[office]
        comment = Office directory
        path = /home/office
        valid users = @offices
        read only = No
        create mask = 0660
        inherit permissions = Yes
        sync always = Yes
        browseable = No
        oplocks = No
        level2 oplocks = No

-- 
Don Eisele, KSU Mathematics Systems Administrator -- eisele at ksu.edu
Cardwell Hall - 201-C
785-532-0561




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