July 2, 201016 yr Ok, I'm going a bit bonkers here. I'm tinkering with User Shares and Users. I've not even begin to try and figure out the high water, split level, most free, fill up stuff This is what I want to do and maybe I'm going about it the wrong way so could somebody explain it to me just a bit. I have a HTPC in the living room and I want to stream my movies/tv-shows/pictures to it. I created the following so far. Shares Share name: Movies Included disk(s): Disk1 High Water Export Read/Write Valid users: cj - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Share name: TV Included disk(s): Disk2 High Water Export Read/Write Valid users: cj Users cj Now it appears that I can read/write to Disk1, Disk2, Disk3 directly. At first nothing was showing up in the My Network Places so I did the simple thing of http://tower and walla I had access. I began copying my movies to Disk1 and its appears when you look in Movies there they are. I'm assuming by copying videos directly to Disk1 it more or less ignores any of the Share settings because you are not copying to the Movies share directly, but to the disk instead. I kinda proved that by copying files directly to Disk2 and nothing shows up in the TV share. What I don't get thou is when I look in Disk1 there is a TV share. HUH? I told it to set it to Disk2, but why is it showing up in disk1? Another one. Now in my current setup I have to users accessing my current NAS. I have the following which both point to the same drive, but with different permissions. cj who has read/write guest who has read only. I can't seem to figure out how to set that up. Also do I want to map my HTPC to the Movie Share and the TV share and ignore the Disk1, Disk2 and so forth?
July 2, 201016 yr Author Unless I'm miss-reading it, it appears that I might have to run this script in order to allow guest access for viewing. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2098.msg43302#msg43302 Tried it and well it did something on the screen, but when I try to access via another computer as a guest it still asks for login/password.
July 3, 201016 yr Author I think I have my issue sorta kinda figured out. Instead of worrying about creating a guest situation I figured out I could simply create a net command bat file and then throw that on my laptop in my startup folder or just throw a short cut on the desktop and give the user read only access. This is basically what I did. Connect to Movies: connect2movies.bat net use z: tower\\Movies accountpasshere /user:usernamehere Connect to TV connect3tv.bat net use y: tower\\TV accountpasshere /user:usernamehere Of course in my example I only chose z and y as a testing base. You can use whatever you want. More than likely T for TV and maybe M for movies? You probably could combine them into one bat file, but I did that for the sake of doing it. Maybe you want to discount your drives when your done or maybe you used those above in another script for some odd reason. DisconnectMovie.bat net use z: /delete The reason some of this is important to me is for my windows machine. I really didn't want my windows machine logged in 24/7 with write access to my files. In the event I get hit with a virus or something I don't want it to run ramped through my files and kill them off. Now with the Net Use command I can run my scripts and have it connect first then run various things I have it run with write access then disconnect when its done.
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