mounts aren't case-sensitive

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Published on 2013-11-25T18:34:43Z Indexed on 2014/06/13 3:29 UTC
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I mounted a few drives from Linux boxes in my network, but those mounts aren't case-sensitive.

The mount command I used ( from the man mount.cifs, case-sensitive should be the default ):

mount //10.0.1.10/remote_folder /local_folder -t cifs -o username=xxxx,password=xxxx

but those mounts aren't sensitive. for example doing:

ls -l /local_folder/testfile.txt
ls -l /local_folder/TESTFILE.TXT

give's the same result... instead of 'file not found'

Couple of important points:

  1. All drives are running on Linux machines.
  2. My local machine is running Fedora 18 and it is case-sensitive for ANY folder/file expect the mounted drives.
  3. All drive/mounts are case-sensitive when when doing SSH. So if I SSH from my local machine to a remote machine, doing ls -l /local_folder/TESTFILE.TXT will say file not found as it should.

So I believe the issue is in my local machine and not in the way I did the mount. but I'm not sure where to look next (I'm new to Linux)

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