XigmaNAS

I'm putting together a box to work almost exclusively over CIFS and I'm missing the ability to change case sensitivity behavior. The best practice here has been to set it to mixed or insensitive for CIFS, but 10.2*... seems to have only sensitive with no way of changing that from the GUI. I can create the share from the command line but I'm just wondering why it's not there? Should it be sensitive for some reason that eludes me?

I've heard setting up cifs via command line allows case insensitivity to be set.

Pretty sure you have to set up the case insensitivity on the ZFS dataset level, ie zfs create storage/blahlblah -o casesensitivity=insensitive blahblah the rest of the options you want. CIFS itself is always case insensitive as is everything else in Windows-land which is why you probably should have your datasets insensitive too. Otherwise you may find yourself with two files, one named Picture.jpg and another named Picture.JPG, and Windows does not approve.

So, the appliance needs a specific setting for this in the dataset creation window with a short note about when to use sensitive, mixed or insensitive. Sensitive or mixed is for NFS etc other Unix-based uses, insensitive or mixed (probably insensitive) is best for CIFS.

I'd like to set it at "case insensitive" and "mixed".
I want to do so that it set as "case insensitive" and "mixed" on Web GUI.

haraoka wrote:I'd like to set it at "case insensitive" and "mixed".
I want to do so that it set as "case insensitive" and "mixed" on Web GUI.

This has been addressed with the new release today. Enjoy!