I had this same problem. I kept changing it in my instance setting on the website and pulling my hair out that it didn’t take.
I eventually found there was a separate setting in my app. Not intuitive but I got there.
Look for the alternate settings. Mine wasn’t even in the main client settings, it was the per instance setting, but in the client.
Thanks Bot!! that was awesome.
For what it's worth, NFS in my experience is also faster. I had a very similar use case (but QNAP instead of Sinology) and switched everything over to NFS and saw performance gain. Little things like previewing IP Camera security footage would feel slow on SMB, but snappier on NFS. I'd gotten over the user thing, but the speed is why I switched.
I did eventually wipe QNAP's software in favor of stock Debian -- but the prevailing wisdom seems to say Sinology's OS is pretty good.
At first, absolutely. Very frustrating, kept feeling the pull back you-know-where. But then after a while, it became kind of a zen thing, if i'm using that word properly? It gives me time to breath a bit, rather than just doom scrolling at an increasing rate.
Maybe kind of part of the Lemmy Ritual? Maybe I'm strange.