Added description of "auto" option for case sensitive parameter.
authorJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:25:25 +0000 (19:25 +0000)
committerJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:25:25 +0000 (19:25 +0000)
Jeremy.

smbdotconf/smb.conf.5.xml

index cfa7e4bc247785ee7adccf7e2073c9651511d1fc..19b4fdc3fbb1b4dc378d0bc693f2efd2139dbf52 100644 (file)
@@ -491,10 +491,16 @@ alias|alias|alias|alias...
                </varlistentry> 
        
                <varlistentry>
-               <term>case sensitive = yes/no</term>
+               <term>case sensitive = yes/no/auto</term>
                <listitem><para>controls whether filenames are case sensitive. If 
                they aren't, Samba must do a filename search and match on passed 
-               names. Default <emphasis>no</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
+               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 <emphasis>auto</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
                </varlistentry> 
 
                <varlistentry>