Sorry another newbie question that google failed me. 

 

I have a /date share with my media and such. I have this share smbed to my user account.   Now let's say I want to give another user access to just /data/media/homemovies only and not the root share /data.  How does one share a folder inside a share.

 

This is easy in Linux or windows. But for the life of me I can't wrap my head around the proper way to do this. I am sure its obvious, but I see away that I can totally mess up my structure by creating a new share under /data/media/homemovies

 

Thank you in advance as always.

 

CD

I know what you're trying to do but I don't know if you *CAN* do it without manually editing the smb-shares.conf.  

 

One workaround would be to just change the user permissions on the parent directory so that user A has access, but user B doesn't, then give both users access to the /homemovies subdirectory.   I usually do this with adding a unix group to /etc/groups, making certain users members of different groups, and managing ownership and access using the good old User/Group/Other permissions.   Unraid doesn't preserve groups, which is a bummer, but I use the Community Applications CA user scripts plugin and have it run a custom script that I create (the button at the bottom there explains this really well).   *THIS ONLY NEEDS TO BE RUN ONCE at Array Startup*.  

 

Perhaps Unraid isn't '"Built" for this but it's an incredibly basic function/feature of any Samba server, one which I've used since 1996.   And now I feel old, thank you.  =-D

 

BTW, the official response will probably be to just split that out into two different shares with different user access.  That doesn't work for most of what I want to do (I already have too many), but it's easy to do.

Edited September 22, 20223 yr by Kamikazejs

Thank you very much. I was hoping that was not the case.

 

I think the custom samba config can work ..  I just found this on Spaceinvaders ones youtube.  I will test this. 

 

Unraid Shares in Depth Pt1

 

The 26 minute mark.   I think this will work.?.?

 

CD