The problem: Imagine a samba-file server on a windows-machine. The samba-server is set to case-sensitive mode because you do a lot of coding and don’t like the case-insensitivty on windows. If a co-worker of you creates the folder “pricelists” somewhere, and moves them in a folder with a already existent “Pricelists” you have those two folders in that one directory with almost the same names and also in explorer.

You’re co-worker is wondering about that and sees that both folders have identical content (on windows; in real it is the content of one of the folders). He now probably deletes one folder resulting in windows removing both folders. Great job!

I think the problem is on windows side which doesn’t realize the server is case-sensitive mode (which should be default but not in a windows world).

Anyway, windows has an option handle fileservers in case-sensitive modes. Just look here to correct that problem and again „tweak“ that setting.

Probably you have to reboot or re-mount the share to make the changes take effect. But windows users probably know that already