Why automount add share with name in capital letters?

[Mareckil]

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SambaNAS

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Hi I need share name in lowercase letters, but SambaNAS create it in capitals, even if I manually deleted share and recreated it with name in lowercase letters, after reboot it comes up again with capitals preventing my manual definition from start. How to fix it?

[dianlight]

Cifs is not case sensitive is case preserving so upper or lower share name is the same. Why do you need a lower share name? Keep in mind that smb protocol 1 e 2 supports only uppercase share name, lower case name is an aesthetic thing introduced in smb version 3.

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[Mareckil]

I need to use my usb drive for frigate so I used samba nas to mount my drive as /media/frigate but it /does it as /media/FRIGATE unfortunately frigate doesn't like it and crashes

[dianlight]

So is not the share name but the mount point name. Your problem, correct me if I'm wrong, is with frigate addon. I'm not in plan to implement a solution for frigate addon and I don't use it. In my opinion mount points need to preserve share names. In an old issue I found a solution with a change in the frigate configuration. I think you can find support on the frigate side.

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[juampick]

Hello, having the same issue here. My drive is frigate in lowercase, and Samba NAS is mounting it as FRIGATE. How Can I change that?

[juampick]

This is the solution: https://github.com/dianlight/hassio-addons/issues/230 just for reference. @Mareckil . The trick is actually disabling the automount and doing manually the mapping.