June 11, 20242 yr Not sure what this is called so I had trouble searching it. I have a share : /data/ it has a lot of directories under it such as: data/usenet/nzb/ data/usenet/complete/ data/.. I have a system on the network that I don't want to have access to the full data share but I want to allow it r/w access to /data/ but I would like it to have r/w access only to /nzb/ so the system can ad hoc drop in nzb files to be picked up by sab. Is it possible to create a share to a single directory that exists in another share? I can only find the option to create a share but no option to specify the share's path?
June 11, 20242 yr Community Expert 38 minutes ago, chowpay said: Is it possible to create a share to a single directory that exists in another share? Nope, you'd need to create separate shares (top level folders)
June 11, 20242 yr Community Expert There is a possible solution to your problem. There is the Linux symbolic link function that can be used setup a share that only contains a portion of another share. You can read about it here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/137806-creat-a-user-share-containing-a-portion-of-another-user-share/#comment-1251067 Be use to read the entire thread and make sure that you understand all of the ramifications of creating it. Creating it has risks associated because it is a backdoor into that portion of the larger share. Remember that anyone who has access to that larger share can still work with those files (dependent of the permissions for that user on the larger share) and, of course, any user with access privileges to the symbolic link share can do the same. (There is only a single set of actual files. But there are now two ways to access them!)
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