Kari Suomela wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RT> I don't see where the filesystem should have anything to do with this,
 RT> though.

 KS> Long file names make the difference. All this mangling etc.
 KS> is still a dark area for me, too. ;)

Oh.  Well,  I haven't got any mangling happening here,  it seems that when I
can get things flowing okay there isn't any problem,  it's getting the
permissons and whatnot right that are giving me some trouble.

Particularly setting up Samba,  and configuring things around the Linux end of 
it to make it work...

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