Samba and 8.3 Notation

by Mark Zim » Fri, 16 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Hi,

Can someone tell me, how I can set samba to allow a NT box writing only
filenames and
directories with 8.3 notation, for compatibility with older
applications?
Is it possible with settings in smb.conf, or only by changing source
code?

Thanks

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1. new isofs option for uppercase filenames (DOS 8.3 format)/SAMBA

I had some W95 clients connected to a LINUX (2.0.32) server box.
some W95 apps (among some shell scripts from other unixes)
expect to have all filenames on a CD in DOS 8.3 format,
i. e. all uppercase. Samba does not supply an option to convert
filenames to uppercase (i.e. I did not find any solution).

Now, for these cases I have added a new mount option to the
isofs driver.

The CD must be mounted according to the mount manpage except that
you can now specify

-o map=d[os]

to use this feature. It is nearly the same like using the default
of "-o map=n[ormal] except for filename case translation.

Feel free to download the patch from

http://www.kcs.de/isofs-patch

Any comments are highly welcome.

(Yeah, I know I'm not a brilliant programmer)

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