Problems with Capital letters in shared folders.
Jarl Friis
I run VMware Workstation 5.0.0-13124, SuSE Linux host and Win XP guest
When I use capital letters in directories in the shared folders it
gives me problems. E.g. MS Visual Studio cannot find files. Other
products behave similarily.
I can see a small behavioral difference from the command prompt. on a
normal drive (like C:) i get identical behaviour when accessing
directories with capital letters either spelled with capital letters
or non-capital letters, like this (Note that it's a Dansih Windows XP):
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C:\>dir "Documents and Settings"
Disken i drev C har ikke noget navn.
Diskens serienummer er FC0C-0981
Indhold af C:\Documents and Settings
06-10-2005 08:11 <DIR> .
06-10-2005 08:11 <DIR> ..
06-10-2005 08:58 <DIR> All Users
07-10-2005 12:33 <DIR> jarl
0 fil(er) 0 byte
4 mappe(r) 13.423.226.880 byte ledig
C:\>dir "documents and settings"
Disken i drev C har ikke noget navn.
Diskens serienummer er FC0C-0981
Indhold af C:\documents and settings
06-10-2005 08:11 <DIR> .
06-10-2005 08:11 <DIR> ..
06-10-2005 08:58 <DIR> All Users
07-10-2005 12:33 <DIR> jarl
0 fil(er) 0 byte
4 mappe(r) 13.423.226.880 byte ledig
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When I do the same on VMware Shared Folders (mapped to dirve V:), with
the Share name "DemoDir":
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V:\>dir DemoDir\Test
Disken i drev V er Shared Folders
Diskens serienummer er 0000-0064
Indhold af V:\DemoDir\Test
24-10-2005 12:33 <DIR> .
24-10-2005 12:44 8 Hello.txt
1 fil(er) 88 byte
1 mappe(r) 3.686.400.000 byte ledig
V:\>dir DemoDir\test
Disken i drev V er Shared Folders
Diskens serienummer er 0000-0064
Indhold af V:\DemoDir
24-10-2005 12:33 <DIR> Test
0 fil(er) 48 byte
1 mappe(r) 3.686.400.000 byte ledig
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Basically that means that if trying to get a file called "Hello.txt"
in a directory with Capital letters I get an error (the specified file
was not found, though in danish), like this:
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V:\>dir DemoDir\Test\Hello.txt
Disken i drev V er Shared Folders
Diskens serienummer er 0000-0064
Indhold af V:\DemoDir\Test
24-10-2005 12:44 8 Hello.txt
1 fil(er) 8 byte
0 mappe(r) 3.686.400.000 byte ledig
V:\>dir DemoDir\test\Hello.txt
Den angivne fil blev ikke fundet.
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I would believe that a configuration in the samba server would solve
the problem, but these are not officially accesable from vmware
Any one got a solution to this problem?
Jarl
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Jarl Friis
Softace ApS
Omøgade 8, 2.sal
2100 København Ø.
Denmark
Phone: +45 26 13 20 90
E-mail: ja...@softace.dk