Series Sorting: case sensitivity problem

[zion2k]

Hello,

I have to following problem:
Linux server with sabnzbd (+ tv sorting enabled) and smb network share.
I access the stuff from a Windows client.
If I download a new episode of a tv series and the downloaded name is different to the already existing name a new directory is created.
Example:
existing name: "Name Of The TV Series"
downloaded name: "Name of the TV Series"
On the linux server is no problem with this. But with the Windows maschine I seen both directories through the samba share but no matter which directory I try to access I always get the content of the old one.

What must I change to get rid of this problem. My favorite solution would be that sabnzbd uses the already existing directory.

[sander]

Looks like a Windows-Samba-Linux problem to me. Does this help: https://serverfault.com/questions/70570 ... re-enabled

[zion2k]

I'm not shure if smbd <-> windows is the root cause.
The symptoms are that on the linux file system two different directories exist that are only distinguishable by case sensitivity. That causes the problem that a Windows client can not access the directories properly.
These parameters in the smb.conf make it a little bit better.

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case sensitive = yes
case preserve = no
short preserve case = no

But the root problem for me is, why is the directory "/Name of the TV Series/Season 01/..." created when there already exist a directory "/Name Of The TV Series/Season 01/..." ?
Can Sabnzbd not put the new content in the "old" directory if only the case sensitivity is different?

[sander]

But the root problem for me is, why is the directory "/Name of the TV Series/Season 01/..." created when there already exist a directory "/Name Of The TV Series/Season 01/..." ?
Can Sabnzbd not put the new content in the "old" directory if only the case sensitivity is different?

I understand that that is the root problem for you, but that is how it works on Linux: case does matter. It's a feature ...

Changing that in SAB or a post-processing script is error prone.

Just a long shot: what if you mount a NTFS or exFAT filesytem, and let Linux write to that, so:

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touch /my/NTFSmount/blabla
touch /my/NTFSmount/BLABLA
touch /my/NTFSmount/BLAbla

... what is the result? Three files, or one file?

[safihre]

We could improve this in SABnzbd though.
See if there's a match if we lowercase all names, if so, then use that name (in it's original case).