What you describe is abnormal but glad it is working for you.

 

The top level directories on each disk are the user shares. That's how they are designed to work. I have no idea how you were able to make a single "shared" user share hold all your data within other top level directories via the unRAID user shares settings. You should have a directory called "shared" on each disk with everything else stored below.

 

Peter

Should I make a folder called shared in the root directory and move all of my current top level directories into that. In case I have found a bug that ends up rectified at a later point and I run into the same problem again?

Well, that's how it's supposed to work so it would likely be a good idea to set it up that way. You could lose the ability to have the split levels or disk include/excludes for each type of media though if you combine them into one giant share.

 

I believe the smb-extra.conf file could also be used to do as you want, which would mean you keep the individual shares but then have a combined share for all. I believe you could use something like this as the contents;

 

[shared]

path = /mnt/usr

read only = No

valid users = xxx

browseable = Yes

 

Then make the user shares hidden.

 

Peter