hello all...just finishing setting up my unraid system... up till now i've had one very large share called media with all my tv and movies. 

 

I have just made additional shares, at the same level as media:

 

pictures

comics

music

other

 

Currently, for the media folder, under 'my computer' i can see a shortcut to the media share, as well i have it mapped as a network drive (N)

 

i'd like to somehow make a shortcut to each of the shares, but then have them grouped in windows just like it was a set of folders.  in other words, i'd like to make a shortcut to 'tower' and when i click on it, i see a folder open in windows with a folder called 'media' 'pictures' 'comics' 'music' etc... i guess i'd like to somehow stack my shares as if they were folders... not sure if i'm explaining myself right.

 

any advice?

 

Only way I'd know to accomplish this is to create a shortcut on the desktop and point it to \\Tower.

 

This would act exactly like choosing "Tower" under "network" in file explorer. It would open up a window with all of your shares visible. Windows does not allow mapping a network drive to the PC, so you couldn't map a drive to "Tower", you'd have to map to each individual shares. Only way around this would be to actually have all the shares under your Media share, creating your very large share again. Then you'd have to get creative with the split point to allow everything to work correctly and not caused problems in the future when disks start to get full.

 

If you do go the route of pointing a shortcut to \\Tower, I'd make the flash share hidden so it wasn't accidentally tampered with, but this depends on who has access to the PC and if they would mess with it. I'd hide it to be safe.

thanks for your suggestion... its pretty close to what i want!  when i click the shortcut to tower, i see all my shares, but i also see a share for the flash drive, as well as each of my 14 discs!  i really don't want to see these disc folders, i only want to see my shares... maybe this is unavoidable?  or maybe i have disc sharing on and don't really need to? 

Then change your configuration to not share the flash drive and to make the drive shares hidden.

i appreciate the suggestion but i can't see where to do this... can you point me in the right direction?

From the web gui click on the disk you want to disable.

From the new page select from the SMB security export (hidden)

 

This will enable you to access the disk from the \\tower\diskX command but while viewing the share on a windows machine the directory will be hidden.

thanks to havoc, and everyone else!!!  i feel foolish but i didn't realize you could click on the 'disk1' i've been clicking on the little folder icon beside it

 

so the solution works exactly like i wanted, thanks all