cifsclient and lower case

[Lars Blumenthal]

Hi,
is it possible mount a share from a windows-server on a hpux workstation just in lower cases?
e.g.
Windows -> TeSt
HPUX -> test

BR
Lars

[Alzhy]

I do not think there is such an option.

cifsmount only has these options:

usage: cifsmount /// []
cifsmount -h prints short help
cifsmount -v prints version information
valid options are:
-r Mount as read-only filesystem
-c Set netbios name of client
-p Connect at this tcp port
-u Enable unencrypted passwords
-s Save mount and password in database (please do not
use unless you understand the security implications)
-E Force data encryption (only when compiled with SSL)
-C Require server certificate (only when compiled with SSL)
-W Do without server certificate (only when compiled with SSL)
-f Force mount. Mount the server even if it does not respond.
-U Username sent to server
-P Password given in commandline (implies -N)
-S Read password from standard input (implies -N)
-N Don't prompt for a password
-I Use this address or hostname for tcp connection


Why do you want the translation in the first place?

[Umapathy S]

Lars,
If I understand your question correctly, then the mountpoint can be of any name.
cifsmount //windows_server/TeSt /mnt/test

HTH,
Umapathy

[Lars Blumenthal]

Umapathy,
sorry for my mistakeble question.

My mountpoint on the Windows share does not matter. The problems are the directories under the mountpoint.
e.g. on the share
//mnt_share/DiR1/DIR2/diR3

I need them all in lower cases on the hpux mashine.
e.g. /dir1/dir2/dir3
If this is not possible, the windows admin on the other site must change his hole directory trees :-)

BR
Lars

[Umapathy S]

Lars, I had the same problem. Mine was a linux box and I faced difficulties whenever I mounted shares from other windows boxes which contained spaces and other longest names embeded with Capital letters.

May be somebody has a solution.

cheers
Umapathy

[Darren Prior · Accepted solution]

Hi Lars,

I believe you can do this by editing the cifsclient config.

Take a look at the caseSensitive and caseMapping options which are documented in the CIFS client manual.

regards,

Darren.