Shares names Capital Letters changing to lower case

Question

Hi,can someone explain why shares (RN102) named with capital letters (e.g DVD) are shown as lower case when accessing via SMB (e.g dvd)?

JennC · Answer

Hello&nbsp;BSZ,

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Where do you see it changes? Is it on the admin page or the Windows explorer? Please also provide the firmware version.

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Welcome to the community!

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Regards,

BSZ · Answer

Hi,The changes are visible in MS Windows Explorer .OS: 6.5.0

JennC · Answer

Hello&nbsp;BSZ,,

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I have tried this on our unit and saw what you mean. To be honest, I've no explanation why. I am still checking with other who possibly have an answer. I also saw when it is a combination of big and small characters it works okay.

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I'll get back to you as soon as I figure out.

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By the way, may I ask if this affects and how it does when you&nbsp;access the NAS? Thanks for reporting this.

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Regards,

Sandshark · Answer

The short answer is "because it doesn't matter".&nbsp;Windows, and thus SMB as typically configured,&nbsp;is not case sensitive with regard to file or directory names.&nbsp; "DVD" = "dvd" = "Dvd", etc.&nbsp; This can cause issues if you use a case sensitive file system to create similary named files or directories with only different cases and then access though SMB, though I have not explicitly tried it on the ReadyNAS (I know to avoid it).&nbsp;SMB does have a case sensitive option, and early ReadyNASes had an option to turn it on (version 3.x, I believe).&nbsp; That still causes issues, though different ones, and the option was deleted in later versions of the OS.&nbsp; I do not know if it can be turned on via SSH, but I wouldn't recommend you do it, even if&nbsp;you can.

mdgm-ntgr · Answer

The setting&nbsp;can be manually overriden via SSH, but as Sandshark mentioned this does cause issues so it shouldn't be done.

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