From 41419c7f3f0779f5637787599520ae2491f033c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Allison Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:25:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added description of "auto" option for case sensitive parameter. Jeremy. (This used to be commit 2dbddeef3c329fe95f66a4403b2ba659c10c3bce) --- docs/smbdotconf/smb.conf.5.xml | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/smbdotconf/smb.conf.5.xml b/docs/smbdotconf/smb.conf.5.xml index cfa7e4bc247..19b4fdc3fbb 100644 --- a/docs/smbdotconf/smb.conf.5.xml +++ b/docs/smbdotconf/smb.conf.5.xml @@ -491,10 +491,16 @@ alias|alias|alias|alias... - case sensitive = yes/no + case sensitive = yes/no/auto controls whether filenames are case sensitive. If they aren't, Samba must do a filename search and match on passed - names. Default no. + names. The default setting of auto allows clients that support case + sensitive filenames (Linux CIFSVFS and smbclient 3.0.5 and above currently) + to tell the Samba server on a per-packet basis that they wish to access + the file system in a case-sensitive manner (to support UNIX case sensitive + semantics). No Windows or DOS system supports case-sensitive filename so + setting this option to auto is that same as setting it to no for them. + Default auto. -- 2.34.1