I think the SMB protocol converts everything to upper case. If you look at a
WINS database it's all upper case. *nix treats different case as unique but
Windows doesn't yet. GLOBAL, GlObal, Global are all the same to Windows. I
think even XP creates short (8.3) uppercase files names in addition to the
long ones you can use.

On the other hand if you use *nix long enough, the file names tend to become
criptic short lowercase (eg: bin, ls, awk, etc.)

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> I've seen one other post on this with no response. I have a requirement
> to have a Samba share named "Global"
>
> I've tried Global, GLOBAL, (not global obviously) but it seems to
> conflict with the "global" section in smb.conf (i.e. all shares stop
> working) I would of thought that on *nix you could get away with a
> different case.....?
>
>
> Is this a case-insensitive protected word?
>
>
> I'm running Solaris 10 Samba V3.0.4
>
> Thx!
>