Scrambled File/Folder Names When Viewed Via Samba

Last modified date: 2022-03-30

Summary

If the name of files and folders are in an unreadable format (8.3 filename) in a shared folder, you can find the properties of the problem shared folder and enable Only allows applications to access files using the long file name format, therefore, the name can be correctly displayed.

If you have multiple shared folders with the same problem, executing the following commands applies the setting to all shared folder in one time.

Procedures

SSH access to the NAS
Execute the following commands

/bin/sed -i '/^oplocks/d' /etc/config/smb.conf
/bin/sed -i '/^mangled names/d' /etc/config/smb.conf
/sbin/setcfg global "oplocks" yes -f /etc/config/smb.conf
/sbin/setcfg global "mangled names" no -f /etc/config/smb.conf
/etc/init.d/smb.sh restart

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