samba - Jun 2002 - smbmount filename case forcing

Hello

I have a problem mounting a win2k share onto linux

I want to mount the share so that all filenames are in lowercase (or
uppercase) only

This is so that I can use apache with a DirectoryIndex of default.htm
instead of all the possible cases. And various other places I plan to
use filenames

Is playing with codepages / iocharsets the way to go ?

TIA

Neil Prockter

On 10 Jun 2002, Neil Prockter wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a problem mounting a win2k share onto linux
> 
> I want to mount the share so that all filenames are in lowercase (or
> uppercase) only
Support for this has been dropped. There used to be code in smbfs that 
mapped A-Z|a-z but smbmount didn't set any such flags.

You can make it case-insensitive by passing the (undocumented?) mount
option "case". How well that works I don't know but you could try
it.


If that fails you could look in fs/smbfs/proc.c in the kernel source.
The old str_lower and str_upper functions are still there but they are no
longer called. If you always want lowercase you could enable the str_lower
call in the smb_decode_*_dirent functions.

/Urban