I used to mount some files via Samba which resided on a windows machine on a CentOS box. We moved the files to a NetApp filer, and I was unable to mount those files using either Samba or CIFS. Most of my problems with Samba were related to the (Windows?) password encryption scheme that has not been included in the Samba suite.
Even if I use the mount t cifs, it didn't work.
So on the NetApp filer, we switched the volume to NFS only (having the volume as both NFS and CIFS also didn't work, strangely enough), and I was able to mount the volume.
Fine. But now the complaint is that the files are case sensitive, and doing searches for a particular file is problematical.
So the question: Is there a file system that linux can access that's case insensitive? I guess making a LUN off the NetApp filer and formatting NTFS would work. But I thought I'd ask if there's other alternatives. Also, I think that it would have to be writable. I haven't checked, but isn't NTFS mountable read-only by linux? === Al
On 7/31/07, Al Sparks data345@yahoo.com wrote:
I used to mount some files via Samba which resided on a windows machine on a CentOS box. We moved the files to a NetApp filer, and I was unable to mount those files using either Samba or CIFS. Most of my problems with Samba were related to the (Windows?) password encryption scheme that has not been included in the Samba suite.
Even if I use the mount t cifs, it didn't work.
So on the NetApp filer, we switched the volume to NFS only (having the volume as both NFS and CIFS also didn't work, strangely enough), and I was able to mount the volume.
Fine. But now the complaint is that the files are case sensitive, and doing searches for a particular file is problematical.
For the case sensitibity, use of cifs would be better. You indicated some sort of a password problem. How about this article? It says "sent by Ralph Angenendt" (yes, a main CentOS member).
http://www.x-tend.be/~fred/howtos/samba3.html#13
Akemi
Akemi Yagi wrote:
For the case sensitibity, use of cifs would be better. You indicated some sort of a password problem. How about this article? It says "sent by Ralph Angenendt" (yes, a main CentOS member).
Strange how stuff always comes up again :)
I banged my head over that one for quite some time before figuring out the workaround. But this workaround shouldn't be needed anymore with newer versions of samba 3, IIRC.
Cheers,
Ralph
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:07:16PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote:
Fine. But now the complaint is that the files are case sensitive, and doing searches for a particular file is problematical.
How so ?
find /filesystem -iname blah.exe
Easy enough.
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