Are Unix extensions enabled in the smb.conf on your server? The default on the server is unix extensions = yes but I wonder if unix extensions are getting turned off somehow on client or server On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Timothy Davenport <warrickguy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've noticed a problem with case insensitivity on my cifs mounts. I > ran into it when upgrading from Linux Mint 13 to 17. I've since > determined that the problem also exists on debian testing. > The shares on my NAS boxes (Buffalo and ZyXEL) are case sensitive with > Mint 13 and debian stable (wheezy). They are case insensitive on Mint > 17 and debian testing (jessie). I do a lot of file renaming > (upper/lower casing) and the insensitivity poses a real problem. > > Here is an example from fstab for one of my shares and the mount command used. > > //10.2.76.31/android /mnt/ls-pro-android cifs > users,noauto,credentials=/home/trdavenport/sambapw,iocharset=utf8 0 > 0 > > mount /mnt/ls-pro-android > > As a test I first installed a new instance of debian stable (Linux > 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u2)(cifs.ko v.1.76), > installed cifs-utils (2:5.5-1) and configured everything to access my > shares. This resulted in case sensitive access to all my shares. > > Without making any other changes I installed a backported kernel > (Linux 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.9-1~bpo70+1)(cifs.ko > v.2.02) and with that all my shares are case insensitive. Using grub > I can switch back and forth between the two kernels and the results > are consistent. > > Have I missed an option or configuration that would address this? I > think the nocase option is supposed to turn off sensitivity, but can't > find anything to turn it on. > > Could this fix ( http;//article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/8832 > ) from 2013-09-12 have something to do with it? > > If I use fuse/gvfs, all the shares are case sensitive on debian stable > and testing as well as Mint 13 and 17. > > -- > Tim Davenport > Gatlinburg, Tennessee USA > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
