Is it possible to hide a disk share?

i know you can hide *all* disk shares, but to hide individual shares might require a bit of Linux/command-line knowledge and modification of the go script (maybe hiding all disk-shares and then creating a set of mount-points of only those disks you want to expose? heck, there are others here that know their stuff in the Linux world a lot better than i do).

I'm a complete linux newb.  How would I go about hiding all the disk shares?

if you click on your "Shares" link in the unRAID Management Console (the web GUI, or Graphic User Interface, as it's called), you will see three drop-down menus...the second one is for Disk-Shares, and allows you to choose it's export method...in effect how they are seen - or not seen - on the network...if you choose "Export read/write - hidden", then you can still mount them on your client machine (such as your HTPC, or Home Theater PC) if you know their name(s), which will always be disk1, disk2, disk3, etc.

 

that may be the easiest way for you to get started...i can't find the thread right now which shows a method of mounting only one disk, and putting some symbolic links to a subset of the other disks into that mount, so that you have a neater way of accessing your many disk in the unRAID from a client...this method simply involves a few lines (mount commands) that you add to the "Go script" on your USB Boot Stick...it's located in the config folder, can be edited with a simple-text editor and is to go-to place (pun intended) to tell your unRAID system what to do while booting up...it's kind of like the "StartUp" folder on WindowsXP, or the old config.sys and autoexec.bat files in Win95.

 

hope that helps a little bit.

ive been trying to add a user share manually

i added a harddrive that i keep outside the array for swap and for dl/par/rar from my usenet account (SABnzbd on unraid)

i just manually added the share to the /etc/samba/smb.shares file

it works perfectly, but it doenst save it to my flash (as expected)

so every reboot i need to add it again

 

is it possible to manually add or alter a user share from the go script?

 

ty

 

is it possible to manually add or alter a user share from the go script?

 

ty

Put a copy of the samba config file on the flash drive after you get it set the way you want.

Then, after emhttp has been started, ad a "cp" command to copy it back to its normal place and lastly

execute a samba stop and start command.

 

cp .....

/root/samba stop

/root/samba start

if you click on your "Shares" link in the unRAID Management Console (the web GUI, or Graphic User Interface, as it's called), you will see three drop-down menus...the second one is for Disk-Shares, and allows you to choose it's export method...in effect how they are seen - or not seen - on the network...if you choose "Export read/write - hidden", then you can still mount them on your client machine (such as your HTPC, or Home Theater PC) if you know their name(s), which will always be disk1, disk2, disk3, etc.

 

that may be the easiest way for you to get started...i can't find the thread right now which shows a method of mounting only one disk, and putting some symbolic links to a subset of the other disks into that mount, so that you have a neater way of accessing your many disk in the unRAID from a client...this method simply involves a few lines (mount commands) that you add to the "Go script" on your USB Boot Stick...it's located in the config folder, can be edited with a simple-text editor and is to go-to place (pun intended) to tell your unRAID system what to do while booting up...it's kind of like the "StartUp" folder on WindowsXP, or the old config.sys and autoexec.bat files in Win95.

 

hope that helps a little bit.

 

Doh!!!!  thanks