LXZ1982 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Hi guys, sorry for the noob question. I tried to search for answers but with the keywords of "shares", "smb" etc. I find everything just not my exact question. So, I have an unraid share for my retro gaming archive, which includes folders for all kinds of things like manuals and magazine PDFs, soundtracks and also for roms. Now, I would like to use the unraid server as a network drive for my MiSTer FPGA. For that matter, I would like to have a separate share of the roms only and with a somewhat different folder structure. Is this achievable within Unraid? Maybe is there a docker that can set up a separate SMB share? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
MAM59 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Shares are always created from the root folder of a drive. But, what works is to make a symbolic link from the subfolder to the root. You need to do this from the console. The link automatically appears as a new share in the GUI, you can publish it and configure access levels. But I don't know if this will produce troubles somewhere (like circular backups or something). Maybe somebody else has tried this in real life ? Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 You didn't give much info about what hardware you are using to access your unraid server. What I have done with Windows 10 Pro computers is to 'map' as a Windows drive--- (The automatic assignment of these drive letters begins at Z:\ ) ---to the point in the Unraid Share's file structure where I need my access point to be.) As an example I have mapped a Drive Z:\ to the point on an Unraid share named Data at ELSIE1\Data\ShareData\Pimax for use by our Address Book program. When the address book program starts up, it looks for its data on Z:\ and it never realizes that it is using a network resource which makes it as happy as a clam. In this case, the Unraid share Data is shared as a Private Share and thus Z:\ has the same usage permissions as the whatever the SMB user from that computer has to that base Share. (In this case, it is Read-Write as I want all users of the Address Book to be able to update the database.) Quote Link to comment
LXZ1982 Posted July 16, 2023 Author Share Posted July 16, 2023 On 12/30/2022 at 2:37 PM, Frank1940 said: You didn't give much info about what hardware you are using to access your unraid server. What I have done with Windows 10 Pro computers is to 'map' as a Windows drive--- (The automatic assignment of these drive letters begins at Z:\ ) ---to the point in the Unraid Share's file structure where I need my access point to be.) As an example I have mapped a Drive Z:\ to the point on an Unraid share named Data at ELSIE1\Data\ShareData\Pimax for use by our Address Book program. When the address book program starts up, it looks for its data on Z:\ and it never realizes that it is using a network resource which makes it as happy as a clam. In this case, the Unraid share Data is shared as a Private Share and thus Z:\ has the same usage permissions as the whatever the SMB user from that computer has to that base Share. (In this case, it is Read-Write as I want all users of the Address Book to be able to update the database.) I am sorry for not replying previously due to personal reasons. Regarding how to access: I want to access the roms with my MiSTer FPGA setup ( https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Wiki_MiSTer/wiki ) via SMB ( https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Wiki_MiSTer/wiki/Samba ). The reason for me asking about a separate SMB share is that in order to funtion properly, MiSTer needs specific, case sensitive, folder names. However, since my Unraid server is more of a living archive, I need different folder names for the archive SMB share. So, my current takeaway from the previous posts is, that I need to figure out systemic links in Unraid, so that the Roms SMB share can utilize the files from the Archive SMB Share. Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 2 hours ago, LXZ1982 said: So, my current takeaway from the previous posts is, that I need to figure out systemic links in Unraid, so that the Roms SMB share can utilize the files from the Archive SMB Share. Try this: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/137806-creat-a-user-share-containing-a-portion-of-another-user-share Quote Link to comment
LXZ1982 Posted July 16, 2023 Author Share Posted July 16, 2023 26 minutes ago, Frank1940 said: Try this: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/137806-creat-a-user-share-containing-a-portion-of-another-user-share Will do. Thank you Quote Link to comment
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