On Monday 31 March 2008, Steve Briggs wrote: > I see I'm not the first to observe this change: > http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg85076.html
That's my post and was resolved as I stated - but that server uses winbind to authenticate to an NT PDC. And despite the initial problem it was probably for the best as with Windows not being case sensitive in regards to usernames the user may have logged on with different case models causing multiple directories to be made and not having access to the ones made under the other "spellings". > Certainly, standard > tools let you create mixed-case usernames without complaint. Not all standard tools will allow for mixed-case usernames. From Gentoo's "man useradd": ============================================== CAVEATS <snip> Usernames must begin with a lower case letter or an underscore, and only lower case letters, underscores, dashes, and dollar signs may follow. In regular expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$] ============================================== Gentoo's useradd script will not allow the creation of a username beginning with an uppercase letter, although it can clearly be done the manual way by editing the proper files. Although Debian, and others do not adhere to this same strictness. And their same-named standard tools will allow for mixed-case usernames. It seems that with Windows usernames the conversion of %U to small case is quite helpful but with Linux usernames it can be a problem. It appears that possibly the "username level" parameter might help in your case. From smb.conf: "This parameter is needed only on UNIX systems that have case sensitive usernames", although it does seem badly worded (as UNIX systems, AFAIK, do have case sensitive usernames) and maybe should be written as "This parameter is needed only on UNIX systems that have mixed-case usernames". -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba