smbmount is easy to use mounting a single unRAID folder.

 

However I can find no way to mount the entire server i.e. //TOWER/ and not //TOWER/TV/.

 

I suspect this is simply impossible but it is a complete PITA having to mount and umount all the time as i copy up data to different base folders.

 

Anyone shed any light?

You are at the mercy of what is being shared.  You cannot smbmount a share that is not being advertised.

 

You can easily add two lines to your config/smb-extra.conf file

[Media]

path = /mnt/user

 

If the config/smb-extra.conf file does not exist, create it with these two commands:

echo '[Media]' >>/boot/config/smb-extra.conf

echo ' path=/mnt/user' >>/boot/config/smb-extra.conf

 

You will then advertise a share named "Media" pointing to all the files on the server under /mnt/user.

 

Joe L.

 

Joe superb.

 

as always very much appreciated. im surprised i am the first to shout about this