help needed: problem with short filenames from windows apps

[Cimaera]

Whenever I save a file from a Windows application on Solaris, if the filename is 8 characters or less, it converts the filename entirely to lowercase, but with 9 characters or more, it works fine. ie:

1234567890
abcdEFGHI.txt --> abcdEFGHI.txt
abcdEFGH.txt --> abcdefgh.txt

Any ideas?

 

[Annihilannic]

How exactly are you saving Windows files to Solaris; using SAMBA?

It sounds like it's using lowercase for filenames that would fit in the old DOS filename format, which were case-insensitive.

If you're using SAMBA you can probably control this behaviour by changing some options in your smb.conf. Annihilannic.