Is there a proper way to eliminate the direct-to-disk shares that show up in Network Places?  "disk1, disk2, disk3, disk4, disk5, etc."

 

I'd rather ONLY see my named shares; "movies" "music" "data" etc.....

 

[i'm using 5.0b2]

 

 

 

Thanks!

Is there a proper way to eliminate the direct-to-disk shares that show up in Network Places?  "disk1, disk2, disk3, disk4, disk5, etc."

 

I'd rather ONLY see my named shares; "movies" "music" "data" etc.....

 

[i'm using 5.0b2]

 

 

 

Thanks!

 

Yes, click on the disk name on the first page and you should be able to set it there.

"Yes, click on the disk name on the first page and you should be able to set it there."

 

I don't want to name my disks.  I want direct references to disks- to be invisible within Windows Explorer.  I already have shares set up for 'movies' 'music' 'data' etc, and I save directly to those- without regard to which physical disk it ends up landing on.  I leave the decision as to which actual drive is used, to UnRAID.

I don't want to name my disks.  I want direct references to disks- to be invisible within Windows Explorer.  I already have shares set up for 'movies' 'music' 'data' etc, and I save directly to those- without regard to which physical disk it ends up landing on.  I leave the decision as to which actual drive is used, to UnRAID.

 

Thats fine, click on the "disk1" name on the Main page of the unRAID web GUI.  That will take you to another page where you should be able to hide the disk shares from the network.

Go to the Shares page on the unRAID GUI.  There you'll find a drop down menu labeled Disk shares (SMB).  Choose the Don't export option and click Apply.  You should no longer see disk shares in windows explorer.

I do not use shares I treat each disk as an individual disk and each disk has it's own name, ie movies, music etc. Is there a way to name the hdds once  so that all the pc's in my house to see the names rather than disk1, disk2 etc?

I do not use shares I treat each disk as an individual disk and each disk has it's own name, ie movies, music etc. Is there a way to name the hdds once  so that all the pc's in my house to see the names rather than disk1, disk2 etc?

short answer... yes

 

one possible longer answer... use user-shares.  put top level directories names "movies", "music", etc. on each respective disk.  Use "included disks" on each user-share to make each disk exclusive to its content.

 

an alternate longer answer.

Use your own set of entries in config/smb-extra.conf to define shares on the lan for the disks.  Hide the "disk shares"

 

Each entry in config/smb-extra.conf looks like this:

[movies]

  path = /mnt/disk1

  read only = yes

[music]

  path = /mnt/disk2

  read only = yes

Go to the Shares page on the unRAID GUI.  There you'll find a drop down menu labeled Disk shares (SMB).  Choose the Don't export option and click Apply.  You should no longer see disk shares in windows explorer.

 

I've followed this but have always had the disk shares show up on my wdtv live.  Anyone been able to hide these on the network?

 

I also have a user share "movies" that is used as the source of all video files

I do not use shares I treat each disk as an individual disk and each disk has it's own name, ie movies, music etc. Is there a way to name the hdds once  so that all the pc's in my house to see the names rather than disk1, disk2 etc?

short answer... yes

 

one possible longer answer... use user-shares.  put top level directories names "movies", "music", etc. on each respective disk.   Use "included disks" on each user-share to make each disk exclusive to its content.

 

an alternate longer answer.

Use your own set of entries in config/smb-extra.conf to define shares on the lan for the disks.  Hide the "disk shares"

 

Each entry in config/smb-extra.conf looks like this:

[movies]

   path = /mnt/disk1

   read only = yes

[music]

   path = /mnt/disk2

   read only = yes

 

Thanks Joe.L

I do not have a file called smb-extra.conf in my config folder, do i have to create this file?

I do not use shares I treat each disk as an individual disk and each disk has it's own name, ie movies, music etc. Is there a way to name the hdds once  so that all the pc's in my house to see the names rather than disk1, disk2 etc?

short answer... yes

 

one possible longer answer... use user-shares.  put top level directories names "movies", "music", etc. on each respective disk.   Use "included disks" on each user-share to make each disk exclusive to its content.

 

an alternate longer answer.

Use your own set of entries in config/smb-extra.conf to define shares on the lan for the disks.  Hide the "disk shares"

 

Each entry in config/smb-extra.conf looks like this:

[movies]

   path = /mnt/disk1

   read only = yes

[music]

   path = /mnt/disk2

   read only = yes

 

Thanks Joe.L

I do not have a file called smb-extra.conf in my config folder, do i have to create this file?

Yes.  You'll need to create it.  You'll probably need to use an editor that does NOT put ms-dos style carriage returns at the ends of the lines.

You can use the editor in "mc" to create the file.

 

Once the file is created you'll also need to stop ans re-start the array to have it read the new file you created.  The examples I gave make the new shares as read-only, but you can change as needed.

 

Joe L.

Go to the Shares page on the unRAID GUI.  There you'll find a drop down menu labeled Disk shares (SMB).  Choose the Don't export option and click Apply.  You should no longer see disk shares in windows explorer.

 

I've followed this but have always had the disk shares show up on my wdtv live.  Anyone been able to hide these on the network?

 

I also have a user share "movies" that is used as the source of all video files

 

Yes I have. both my computers and my WD TV Live see only the shares. As I remember, all I did was like the above instructions say.

I do not use shares I treat each disk as an individual disk and each disk has it's own name, ie movies, music etc. Is there a way to name the hdds once  so that all the pc's in my house to see the names rather than disk1, disk2 etc?

 

Welcome to the hard drive pool world. This should or at least in my opinion be one of the reasons why to even use unRIAD. Have one folder visible on the network and look as though all your hard drives are tied together.