CIFS file name case

Case preservation

By default, the filer preserves the case of CIFS file names.

Case conversion procedures

You can force all PC-created file names to be stored on the filer in lowercase or return to having the filer preserve case.

To force all CIFS file names to be stored on the filer in lowercase, follow the procedure in "Forcing CIFS file names to lowercase." You might want to do this to avoid the following problems:

• UNIX lowercase names might contain uppercase characters when converted to CIFS names.
• Some CIFS clients changing the case of NFS file names on the filer, making them inaccessible from NFS.

To change back to having the filer preserve the case of CIFS file names, follow the procedure in "Preserving the case of CIFS file names."

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