I have a few questions on user and disk shares.  I did a search but I'm still not 100% sure I totally understand them.  There really really needs to be a full proper user guide on how all this works.

I have 3 data drives. 

Disk 1 and Disk 2 contain a folder called Movies and beneath that each movie is in it's own folder. 

Disk 3 has a folder called Music and beneath that each artist has it's own folder.

If I create user shares will this create shares for every single folder?  I'd ideally only like to See Movies and Music.  Is this possible?  Also if I make the user shares hidden how do I play the movies off these shares from my Meedio frontend?  Do I put the path as \\tower\Movies\<moviename>

 

For disk shares, I see there's a Read/Write Hidden.  If I select this can my Meedio HPTC frontend still play the files off of the disks as long as the path is using \\tower\disk1\<moviename>?

Hi DigitalDivide,

 

Tom has stated already that once he's done with expanding the features of "User Shares" to include full read AND write that he'll be creating a webpage to better explain it all.

 

As for how it works now, if you use your 3 drives as examples then you create a 'Movie' share in each one. In each one you have a folder for each movie title which contains the actual movie files. Now, if you enable User Shares then you can simply view the contents of the "Movie" share and in it you will see ALL movies as though they are on one disk. It works well, but you can't write to that share. To write, you'd have to use something like: Disk2/Movies/[title of new folder].

 

Does this help?

 

-PGPfan

PGPfan,

 

I kinda figured it out that just by enabling the user shares, the system will do a scan for folders.  I was hoping to get a more specific answer to some of my questions regarding the hidden aspect.  If the user shares are hidden and my htpc frontend points to the share, it should still be able to play the movies of the share correct?  I'm assuming that making it hidden only hides it from browsing the network and not if you know the full path.

 

 

Right, "hidden" just prevents them from showing up in a browse list - ie, My Network Places.  If you know the pathname you can still open the files.

Can someone define and explain the 4 choices that are available in the Shares area?

 

I am a little confused as to what each means and then what each does.

 

Thanks

Don't Export - Do not allow the share to be accessed from the network at all.  Turns off all access basically.

Export Read/Write - What it says.  Export it so that it can be accessed and seen via browsing and allow users to read and write data to the share

Export Read Only - Export it so that it can be accessed and seen via browsing and allow users to read but not write data

Export Read/Write, Hidden - Export it so that it can be accessed and allow users to read and write data to the share but browsing to "\\tower\" for example will not show the name of the share.  To access the share you have to know the name already. Ex. \\tower\disk1\

Export Read Only, Hidden - Same as above but no writing.

 

These all function the same way for the FLASH and DISK shares but not for USER.  User shares are not fully writeable.  I am not sure what kind of writing works and what doesn't.  Full writing is forthcoming.  For right now just reading is all that works.

 

 

Exactly right.

I also have a question about shares. I am really into getting TV shows on DVDs and the way I organize them are as follows:

 

\TV Shows\'TV Show Title'\'Season #'\ which will contain the individual episodes of the season.

 

Now suppose I have the same TV show, but different seasons of the show on two different discs how will it be displayed.

 

e.g. disk1\TV Shows\House\Season1\

      disk2\TV Shows\House\Season2\

 

What I am hoping for is that it will display the folders Season1 and Season2 under TV Shows\House\

 

 

 

What I am hoping for is that it will display the folders Season1 and Season2 under TV Shows\House\

 

It will indeed.  I do exactly that on my system.

I have all my disks shares showing up under network places.

 

The shares settings on unRaid seem to affect all drives. Is that correct?

 

Is it possible to "individually control" the hidden aspect to each drive?

 

 

The shares settings on unRaid seem to affect all drives. Is that correct?

 

Correct.  The Disk Shares setting (Don't Export, Export read/write, etc.) affects all drives.

 

Is it possible to "individually control" the hidden aspect to each drive?

 

It might be possible to script something if you are very good understanding of Linux and Samba, but no, it is not possible using the //tower web configuration tool.

Would it be possible from within Windows?

Would it be possible from within Windows?

 

The idea was been tossed around in another thread (see below), but I haven't seen the results of any tests yet...

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=418.0