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Preventing CIFS clients from creating uppercase file names

How CIFS clients rename NFS files  Top

Older, 16-bit CIFS clients that open and save files change the file name by changing the lowercase or mixed-case characters to all uppercase characters. You can prevent these uppercase file names by forcing Data ONTAP to store CIFS file names using lowercase characters.

Forcing lowercase file names  Top

To prevent CIFS clients from creating uppercase file names, complete the following step.

Step

Action
1

Enter the following command:

options cifs.save_case off

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