Known issue with Windows accessing NFS shares, Google NFS case sensitivity. What NFS client and Windows version are you using? MS NFS Client has case sensitivity adjustments you might read up on. You can also tune the kernel (windows side) to support case sensitivity...
Ugly mess... jlc -----Original Message----- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NFS case sensitive files in Linux and Windows Dear all, We have a NFS filesystem imported from a Windows machine and a Linux machine. If we create a text file called "test.txt" from Linux with "content 1" and then create afterwards a file called "TEST.txt" from Linux with "content 2", if you try to open any of those files from the Windows machine, it will show both of them with "content 1". If I try to open "TEST.txt" from the linux box, it reports that this file doesn't exist, although I can see from the Windows box. This come from a test trying to perform a Netbackup restore of NFS filesystems in a Linux box. The restore is not case sensitive so any file that is lower case or upper case is restored as one single file. The reason why we are using Linux to perform the restore is because our Netbackup server is Linux and would require to perform restores from client machines the requirement of performing netbackup restores from Windows machines. I hope I have explained myself well Thanks, Miguel ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
