mikechy Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 finally got around to upgrading my 4.7 to 5.0.6 and everything went just fine. However, I now have a share for each drive as well as the Shares I created. Is this normal for 5.0.x? Before upgrade my shares were: DVD Photos BluRay Music Misc Backup Now I have extra shares, which are functional: Disc1 Disc2 ... Disc12 Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Those shares are direct access to your individual drives You can disable them (or hide them) by clicking on the drive and then changing the export settings. Quote Link to comment
mikechy Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 Thanks for the quick reply. I actually don't mind having them, just wanted to make sure that was normal. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Yes, they're normal -- the disk shares are simply exported by default and, as noted, you can easily disable them if you should ever choose to do so. There are actually times when it's best to use the disk shares instead of the "user shares" [if you are moving data around on the individual disks], but for most purposes you don't need to use them. Note also that if you don't want to "see" the disk shares all the time when you browse your network, you can change them to "Export - Hidden" ... and then you won't see them when you browse, but you can still access them via \\Tower\Diskx Quote Link to comment
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