January 22, 201412 yr Scenario: I have an existing share that is restricted to private access. In this share there is a folder which I would like to temporarily export as a share or make it accessible for public. How can I do this without copying that folder into an new dedicated share?
January 22, 201412 yr As far as I know sharing a folder in a folder is not possible. Shares can only be made at the root level.
January 22, 201412 yr I think it should be possible using smb-extra.conf, but I've never done it, so I can't help with details. autumnwalker is right, in that you can't do it with the stock web gui. If it's possible at all, it's going to involve manually setting it up.
January 22, 201412 yr I am assuming you are asking to share this via SMB. If that is true, I know of no way to do it. It may be done, I just don't know how. If you are willing to do it via NFS, I know that works. bkasten
January 22, 201412 yr You can create symbolic links to that folder at the top of the fs of all the disks it lives on, and then share that. cd /mnt/disk2 ln -s some/deep/folder folder cd /mnt/disk4 ln -s some/deep/folder folder ... then configure the share via the web GUI. Haven't tried that on my system but can't see why it won't work. EDIT: Even simpler, you can do: cd /mnt/user ln -s some/deep/folder folder then configure share via GUI.
January 23, 201412 yr Author EDIT: Even simpler, you can do: cd /mnt/user ln -s some/deep/folder folder then configure share via GUI. Seems easy. And this won't conflict with the different security settings? Remember, the original share is "private" and the symlink share will be "public".
January 23, 201412 yr Seems easy. And this won't conflict with the different security settings? Remember, the original share is "private" and the symlink share will be "public". I don't see why it should. You set security for each share separately. The whole tree is one share, and the subfolder is another. You can experiment with it and see what happens.
May 24, 201412 yr Author OK, coming back with the result. It works. 1. set up the new share name in the unRAID GUI 2. then link the folders like described in the prior posts 3. set the permissions for the share created in #1 Cool! Thx 2 you all!
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