Might seem like a silly question but I'm stumped.

 

I'm trying to get a share to come up as "3D" with the capital "D" .  I attached a screen cap for the purpose of illustration.

 

In all my Windows 7 clients that share is coming up as "3d" with a lower case "d".  This in spite of the fact that I have it set up as "3D" in Share Settings.  A telnet session into /mnt/user also has it as "3D".

 

I have other shares like "Childrens Videos" that come up with the proper capitalization.

 

The only thing that distinguishes this share from the others is that this is the first proper share that I've assigned de novo on 5.0rc11 -- from the "Name" down.

 

The other shares you see weren't set up de novo, but rather just came up "ad hoc" because I imported populated drives intact from an old 4.7 server.  On day one when I turned on the power, unraid 5.0rc11 brought the shares up with the share names (with proper capitals) intact (both on SMB and Share Settings).  The remainder of the share settings, I did have to re-enter however.

 

I'm sure I'm missing something easy.

I think it has to do with how windows is seeing and presenting the share, not the settings on the server. Try adding a lower case letter, like 3Ds, and see if it shows up. I'm not sure it's possible to have all caps not show as lowercase.

Yes I noticed this too when I created a share called TV was shown as lower case from Windows machine, ignoring it for now but it does niggle me :-)

 

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It's a Windows issue. Shares with all upper case letters are presented in lower case.

I'm trying to get a share to come up as "3D" with the capital "D" .  I attached a screen cap for the purpose of illustration.

 

In all my Windows 7 clients that share is coming up as "3d" with a lower case "d".  This in spite of the fact that I have it set up as "3D" in Share Settings.  A telnet session into /mnt/user also has it as "3D".

 

Haha ... blame Windows!  A 'real' O/S [eg *nix/Linux] will display the share names exactly as you type them in.

 

Windows doesn't differentiate between upper and lower case - it just displays everything with capitalised initial letters, with the rest in lower case

I haven't tried it yet (will later after I get home) but I did find the following utilizing my Google Foo:

 

Changing the Registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\DontPrettyPath

 

To 1 will disable the case changes. You may have to reboot/logoff > on to activate.

  Other past MS OSes sometimes would do the same thing, some it was easy to change after finding the proper sub-menu option to select, which in turn changed the registry entry for the option...  Others it was controlled only by a registry key change.

 

  Thanks for the registry key!  It looks correct!  It seems to work properly still in Windows 8 with my tests I just did...  (I also just added it to the registration key change list I do with Windows 8 installs.)  :-)

 

  By the way, it was also the same key in Windows XP, (at least in SP2...)  ...and probably also in other versions between XP and Win8

 

 

thank you very much!