File Sharing Between NFS and CIFS Users 5-7
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Uppercase and lowercase characters are significant to NFS clients but not to CIFS cli-
ents. For example, if a file named specifications already exists, an NFS user can still
save another file under the name Specifications, but a CIFS user is instructed by the
application to choose another file name. This section describes how both NFS and
CIFS users can use file names that differ only by case.
When a client creates a file name, the filer preserves the case. For example, if a CIFS
client creates Spec.txt, the file name is displayed by both CIFS and NFS clients as
Spec.txt. If an NFS user later creates a file named spec.txt, NFS and CIFS clients see
the file names as follows:
On NFS clients, one file is displayed as Spec.txt and the other is displayed as
spec.txt. That is, the file names are displayed in the same way as they were
created.
On CIFS clients, even those that support long names, one file is displayed as
Spec.txt and the other is displayed as Spec~0.txt.
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File names in languages other than English can use characters that have diacritic
marks, or accents, or can use characters that are not even in the Roman alphabet.
UNIX and Windows systems can create file names with no restrictions, provided that
they do not violate the naming conventions of the operating system that they were
created in. The language you select affects multiprotocol behavior and the code page
for Windows 98 and older clients.
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To make sure that file names stored on the filer are usable by both UNIX and Win-
dows applications, you must choose a character set that contains the characters in
the language that your clients use. To do so, you choose a language, and the filer uses
a character set that is appropriate to the language.
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Every volume uses a language, and therefore a character set, that you specify for file
names. The root volume determines the code page for PCs and the console character
set.
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The language you specify controls the name translation between UNIX and Windows
names.