Set Mangled Names to No (Auxillary Parameters)

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Hi, all!

I’m having some issues with an application. This application is running in a container on a separate VM and is using a drive mounted via SMB.

I’m not 100% sure that changing mangled names to no will fix the issue, but it’s a troubleshooting step I’ve seen work for some others.However, I can’t seem to figure out how to do this on SCALE.

The documentation states that there is an “Auxillary Parameters” configuration option for this purpose, but I don’t see that when I go to Services > SMB.

I have attached an image of what I see on my system.

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I am on the latest stable, 24.04.

Am I missing something?

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Enable the option Use Apple-style Character Encoding in the SMB share configuration itself.

Then reconnect the client/app to the share and see if it works?

I’m assuming your client is seeing “managled” filenames, due to some filenames containing “illegal characters”?

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That worked! Thank you!

Yeah, for some reason, Plex and Sonarr were having issues with reading some files on my NAS drives. I’m not 100% sure why. The file names and metadata looked perfectly reasonable to me, but I guess there must have been some weird characters somewhere in there.

Should I log an issue for the Auxiliary Parameters field not being present? Or is that intentional?

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The Aux-Parameter field has been removed with cobia i believe. It’s intentionally no longer there because there were problems with users setting aux parameters and a lot of problems/bug reports with them.

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Ah, that makes complete sense. Should I file something to update the docs, then, so that dummies like me don’t go looking for it and get confused as to why it’s not there? :stuck_out_tongue: