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May 20th, 2012 21:00
The case sensitive of CIFS share name
Hi there,
I created the CIFS share that all letters of share name are upper case intentionally. From the Windows client, there seems to be two types of view about the letter of share name.
The following is an example;
share name : TEST
Case1. access the CIFS share using IP address
The CIFS share shows up as upper case Windows client
Case2. access the CIFS share using host name
The CIFS share shows up as lower case on Windows client
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tokai0730
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May 21st, 2012 02:00
Hi,
Thank you for your answer. I agree that Celerra Share names are case-insentive.
How do you think of the view difference on Winodows client? Does it depend on Windows OS?
tokai0730
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May 20th, 2012 22:00
Let me correct the example description.
The correct is the following.
Case1. access the CIFS share using IP address
The CIFS share shows up as lower case on Windows client.
\\ address>\TEST ---> test
Case2. access the CIFS share using host name
The CIFS share shows up as upper case on Windows client. The upper case is preserved.
\\ name>\TEST ---> TEST
SamirGautam
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May 21st, 2012 01:00
ThanksSamir
SAMEERK1
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May 22nd, 2012 04:00
hi,
I tried to setup this scenario and found that the Cifs shares shows the same case as exported from the Celerra either by accessing the \\Cifshostname or \\Cifs_ip
I tried this on Windows 2k8 server. would suggest you to check if the issue still appears with other host/OS
Sameer Kulkarni
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May 23rd, 2012 01:00
We dont decide – it is part of the CIFS protocol specification