On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 05:38:57PM -0400, William Jojo wrote: > > > > > > Still gathering data on this one, but it's easy to reproduce the case > > insensitive collision. > > > > > > AIX 5.2 Samba 3.0.7. > > > > in unix create two dirs on a user's [homes] share: > > > > CISS-102 > > ciss-102 > > > > put files from windows (I used XP sp1) into just one of them, then go and > > view the other. they have the same contents. on fresh smbd, if you start > > with the empty dir then both appear empty. > > > > When the student copied a file from one dir to the other in windows you > > get "file" plus "Copy of file" in both. Not good. > > > > I'll have more details posted when I'm done with class tonight as I am > > creating this in development so I can get a log level 10 for just one > > station. > > Well you're violating the contract Samba has with the client here. > If you do this, and you leave Samba telling the client that you are > case insensitive but case preserving then you're lying to the client - there's > no way such a dual directory could be created from the client, so no > wonder things get confused. > > What do you think should be the correct action here ? > > Jeremy. > Jeremy, Thanks for the reply. A few hours after I sent out the email I realized my real problem is allowing students to create directories in Unix that are the same as their [homes] share paths. Samba's behaviour is of course correct. Sorry for wasting your time on this one. Bill -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba