Perhaps I've missed this somewhere, but is there a way for me to go about naming the disks in my array? I just built my first unRAID server and would like to be able to name the disks for ease of browsing the shares.

 

Thanks much.

Perhaps I've missed this somewhere, but is there a way for me to go about naming the disks in my array? I just built my first unRAID server and would like to be able to name the disks for ease of browsing the shares.

 

Thanks much.

Create top level folders named as you like on your disks with the names you want to see on the LAN.

Then, turn off the "disk" shares, or export them as "hidden" and then enable "User-shares"  each top level folder becomes a "share" on your lan, named as you please.

 

More complicated, use a config/smb-extra.conf file (you will need to create it) and in it put

[YourShareName]

  path = /mnt/disk1

  read only = No

 

The path can be any path to any folder.  If you have a folder for a family member, you can name the share after the family member, and use a "path" to point to their folder.  To point to a user share, if you've enabled them, the path will be something like this:

path = /mnt/user/Family Pictures

 

You'll need to reboot for the new file to be recognized, or type:

smbcontrol smbd reload-config

on the linux command line.