SMB Export w/Manual Config

[DanTheMan827]

It would be very nice if there was an option in the SMB section of the share for manual configuration of that export.

 

Something like 

 

Export: Yes (Manual)

 

Selecting that would remove all of the unraid provided SMB configuration and replace it with a text area with just the raw SMB configuration for the share.

 

This can be done already by not exporting the share and then going into the SMB settings and adding the extra configuration, but that's much less user friendly, and requires stopping the array in order to change it.

Edited November 4, 2023 by DanTheMan827

[dlandon]

Why would you want to do that?  What is it you want to do that Unraid doesn't let you do already?

[DanTheMan827]

Manual SMB export configuration would allow the ability to specify certain advanced smb options like setting the "fruit" options of an export on a per share basis, or perhaps setting the path as the ZFS dataset rather than the user share version.

 

Using the ZFS dataset would allow SMB to show the correct space if you set the ZFS dataset reserved space and max space.

 

You could have a ZFS dataset on a drive dedicated to Time Machine, or even just a non-Apple share you want to configure for File History on Windows and not have it eat all your space.

 

zfs create disk1/mybackup
zfs set reservation=1T disk1/mybackup
zfs set quota=1T disk1/mybackup

 

Maybe it would work, but I think a non-exclusive version of this share would have issues with free space calculation

Edited November 4, 2023 by DanTheMan827

[Frank1940]

You can probably do everything you want to do if you use the smb-extra,conf configuration section in the   Settings  >>>>  SMB   >>>    SMB Extras   

 

Have a look at the   smb.conf     file in the   /etc/samba      folder as well as the other files in that folder.   You can find the many, many parameters for the smb.conf file by googling for it.  Configuring Samba manually is not a trivial task.  

Edited November 11, 2023 by Frank1940