Bug#510564: Easy fix: modify the case-sensitive setting of the samba share

Tim Richardson tim at tim-richardson.net
Tue Jan 6 02:44:06 UTC 2009


I just noticed that this Debian bug refers to ext3 shares mounted via
Samba, whereas the Ubuntu launchpad discussion is about NTFS shares.

The debian report (above) is correct with the default settings for a
samba share.

However, the correct behaviour is easily reached: modify the samba share
so that the case-senstive parameter is set to true. This allows file.txt
and file.TXT to be two separate files.

I tested this with two Debian machines: a Lenny server and a Lenny
client. I administer samba with swat. Using swat, the case-senstive
setting is under "advanced" options for the share.

The default setting is "auto" which causes the potential data-loss bug.















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