Re: Samba (was: FTP problem)

2010-03-19 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 3/19/2010 at 12:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: -snip- > In my experience, Windows is case preserving but not case sensitive. Correct. -snip- > One of the components must go to considerable effort to make this > operate incorrectly. And you really have any doubt which one? Can't say I do.

Re: Samba (was: FTP problem)

2010-03-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 03/18/2010 at 07:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >Someone is to blame. Indeed, but picking a random target is not the way to determine who deserves the blame. If I knew no history I might blame m$, but AFAIK this goes back to CP/M or earlier. Does anyone here know whether RT-11 had case-

Re: Samba (was: FTP problem)

2010-03-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:47:03 -0600, Mark Post wrote: > >> Someone is to blame. If I have a UNIX directory containing >> >> FRED.txt >> Fred.txt >> fred.txt >> >> they all appear correctly in the Windows Explorer display. > >As they should. Samba is both case sensitive and case preserv

Re: Samba (was: FTP problem)

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 3/18/2010 at 08:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:45:36 -0600, Mark Post wrote: > -snip- >>The file system keeps track of this, not Samba. It has access to that > information. >> > But if Samba (client or server) were to convert, e.g. LF<-->CRLF, > the size would ap

Re: Samba (was: FTP problem)

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:45:36 -0600, Mark Post wrote: On 3/18/2010 at 06:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> And Samba doesn't convert line separators: > >It doesn't do it by design. It's a file server, not a data manglement server. > The z/OS NFS server, by contrast, converts line separators i

Re: Samba (was: FTP problem)

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 3/18/2010 at 06:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > And Samba doesn't convert line separators: It doesn't do it by design. It's a file server, not a data manglement server. > o Possibly because it might not be revertible? Indeed. Revertible to what? No way to know just what kind of client

Samba (was: FTP problem)

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:48:52 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > >The problem that I've run into is where the file is generated on a UNIX >machine, and accessed by a Windows server via Samba. The file only has LF, and >Windows' IIS ftp server doesn't recognized that as an end-of-line character, >so it