Bug 480405
| Summary: | 'default case' parameter description in smb.conf(5) is confusing | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Bryan Mason <bmason> | ||||
| Component: | samba3x | Assignee: | Guenther Deschner <gdeschner> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons | ||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | azelinka, dpal, gdeschner | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | samba3x-3.3.12-0.55.el5 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: |
The smb.conf manual page contained an ambiguous description of the 'default case' parameter. With this update, the description is updated and gives a clear description.
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Story Points: | --- | ||||
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| : | 639141 (view as bug list) | Environment: | |||||
| Last Closed: | 2011-01-13 22:44:22 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 639141 | ||||||
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The smb.conf manual page contained an ambiguous description of the 'default case' parameter. With this update, the description is updated and gives a clear description.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0054.html |
Created attachment 329255 [details] Proposed patch to reword description of "default case" in smb.conf(5) Description of problem: In the section of smb.conf(5) that describes the "default case" parameter, the structure of the sentences and lack of punctuation leaves them open to a number of interpretations. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-3.0.28-0.el5.8 samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. man smb.conf 2. search for "default case" 3. Read the paragraphs that follow Actual results: Confusing description of the "default case" parameter. Expected results: A clear description of the parameter which yields only one understanding. Additional info: Suggested wording for this paragraph is as follows: default case = upper/lower controls what the default case is for new filenames (ie. files that don´t currently exist in the filesystem). Default _lower_. IMPORTANT NOTE: As part of the optimizations for directories containing large numbers of files, the following special case applies. If the options _case_sensitive_=_yes_, _preserve_case_=_No_, and _short_preserve_case_=_No_ are set, then the case of _all_ incoming client filenames, not just new filenames, will be modified. See additional notes below. Patch attached for samba-3.0.33