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Re: Samba problem



Alex Dubrovsky wrote:

> Hi all
> I'm having the following problem:
> I got a samba server (2.0.4) at userlevel securety acting as a login server
> for 98/95 workstations.
> Everything is fine but 1 problem:
> user opens a file from a share on the server , and when he tryes to save the
> file after editing , he gets access denied.
> All the oplock / lock options are at default and the directories are
> user/group readable / writable.
> Any ideas?
>
> P.S. It's RH5.2 with kernel 2.2.9
>

Hi Alex,

I am doing something similar to what you are trying to do, and I ran into
similar problems when I was setting the thing.  The problem that I found was
that I was telling the SAMBA to be case sensitive, and to maintain case.
Maintaining case was OK, but telling it be case sensitive was not.  The reason
was that many Microsoft libraries would change the case of the file name (all
upper, proper, whatever) internally and then when it tried to save the file it
was trying to save to a different name (it opened it as index.html, but saved it
as INDEX.HTML).  The goal I was trying to achieve was to keep Microsoft from
case mangling the names, and telling Samba to maintain case was sufficient to do
that, but the telling it to be case sensitive was not necessary to meet my goals
and proved to work against them.

I hope this helps.

Regards...james