Steve: The NAS's (servers) run linux but are managed through a web interface and have no root access. I added, unix extensions = yes to /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] on my client (debian) machine but it didn't help. I added it to /usr/share/samba/smb.conf also for good measure even though I don't think it's used I retired from IBM in 2010 On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 -- 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
