I am trying to turn on/off certain samba shares on a schedule using cron. What's the best command to pass? All I can think of is using sed to edit /etc/samba/smb-shares.conf, but this seems really complicated and would break the webgui options that were set. Is there a command that mimics what the webgui is doing when it turns on/off samba export or changes security options for a given share?

Edited July 30, 20196 yr by golli53
solved/workaround

Couldn't figure this out using the shell, but ended up writing a short Python script to toggle options through HTTP to the webgui. CSRF tokens made it a bit trickier. Can send it out if anyone is also looking for a solution.

1 hour ago, golli53 said:

Couldn't figure this out using the shell, but ended up writing a short Python script to toggle options through HTTP to the webgui. CSRF tokens made it a bit trickier. Can send it out if anyone is also looking for a solution.

So how did you do it? Would be very useful for me to be able to interact with the GUI but I don't know how to do it with Python.

6 hours ago, testdasi said:

So how did you do it? Would be very useful for me to be able to interact with the GUI but I don't know how to do it with Python.

def toggle_unraid_share(url, setting=True, share_name='share'):
    from requests_html import HTMLSession
    session = HTMLSession()
    r = session.get(url)
    r.html.render()
    token = re.search(r"csrf_token=([A-Z0-9]+)", r.html.full_text).groups()[0]
    r2 = session.post(f"{url}/update.htm", 
        data={'shareName': share_name, 'shareExport': 'e' if setting else '-', 'shareSecurity': 'public', 'changeShareSecurity': 'Apply', 'csrf_token': token})
    r2.raise_for_status()
    session.close()

Here's the script in function form. Requires Python 3 and requests_html. Should be fairly easy to generalize it to other settings changes (by changing the data argument in the sessions.post call). URL is your unraid address, incl http(s)://

Edited July 30, 20196 yr by golli53