On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:22:35 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:33:35PM -0600, Jordan Russell wrote:
In recent versions of Samba (including 3.0.24), attempting to rename a
file to a new name that differs only in case appears to have no effect:
I'm pretty sure this
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:07:48PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:22:35 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:33:35PM -0600, Jordan Russell wrote:
In recent versions of Samba (including 3.0.24), attempting to rename a
file to a new name that differs
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:15:49 -0600
From: Jordan Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Michael Gasch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Note that I am able to create new files with all-lowercase letters. I
just can't rename an existing FILE.txt to file.txt.
From what client?
MS Windows doesn't distinguish between
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
If it did ever work, it was a fluke. Renaming
files to different case on a caseless filesystem
(or filesystem protocol) doesn't make much sense.
Erm, why would it be a fluke? You can do this on local filesystems (as
far back as Windows 95, at least), and you can
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Jordan Russell wrote:
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
If it did ever work, it was a fluke. Renaming
files to different case on a caseless filesystem
(or filesystem protocol) doesn't make much sense.
Erm, why would it be a fluke? You can do this
Mac wrote:
MS Windows doesn't distinguish between those two names, so it won't let
you perform the re-name as it thinks you're not changing the name.
That's actually not true; Windows-hosted filesystems allow it.
--- Test on local Windows 2000 file system ---
C:\echo . FILE.txt
C:\dir
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
File a bug please. Although in ge grand scheme of things
this would be low priority to me. Maybe Jeremy feels differently.
He lives in the file serving code more than I do.
Okay, done:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4377
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Jordan Russell
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Michael Gasch wrote:
what are your settings concerning case mangling?
As mentioned, I'm using all defaults. Grepping for case in smb.conf
doesn't yield any matches.
Note that I am able to create new files with all-lowercase letters. I
just can't rename an existing FILE.txt to file.txt.
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