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Bante
Aug 06, 2010Aspirant
remove webroot and addons-config netshare
I've been trying out some community addons and I didnt use them as much so I removed them.
The removal worked great but for some reason my computers can still see shares that have been created by these addons. They don't show up in frontview, only in windows network. Any ideas how to remove these? These shares are named "webroot" and "addons-config"
Any help appriciated!
The removal worked great but for some reason my computers can still see shares that have been created by these addons. They don't show up in frontview, only in windows network. Any ideas how to remove these? These shares are named "webroot" and "addons-config"
Any help appriciated!
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- VNYAspirantHello. I installed the "transmission" addon and upon deleting it, was unable to get rid of "addons-config and "webroot" shares regardless of what I did. I also now have "home", "c" shares I do not want to see in my computers network lineup. Please help
PS
I've already re-installed firmware and the condition still exists. This time, in addition, the "backup" folder isn't in Radiators shares. Cant re-create that either; says it aready exists, which it does in my PC's network.
I've also enabled SSH at one time and follwed this board to remove shares from the exact root folders. deleted them but they they're still there. Went back to do it again and couldnt find them in "samba" directory the second time although they were still in network..Weird...
Please help me get rid of these folders ( addons-config; webroot; Home; C;) . They're driving me nuts
Thanks in advance. - mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee Retired"home" and "c" are only seen if you login as "admin" (Frontview user). Don't login as "admin" if you don't want to see those shares.
You could try installing the CreateMissingSharePaths add-on. Then delete the shares you want to delete via Frontview. This should remove the entries for the shares in /etc/frontview/samba/Shares.conf
In /etc/frontview/samba/addons you should delete the relevant entries from the addons.conf file and the conf files for the shares created by addons you want to delete such as "addons-config.conf"
Then reboot the NAS to verify the problem is fixed. - VNYAspirant
mdgm wrote: "home" and "c" are only seen if you login as "admin" (Frontview user). Don't login as "admin" if you don't want to see those shares.
You could try installing the CreateMissingSharePaths add-on. Then delete the shares you want to delete via Frontview. This should remove the entries for the shares in /etc/frontview/samba/Shares.conf
In /etc/frontview/samba/addons you should delete the relevant entries from the addons.conf file and the conf files for the shares created by addons you want to delete such as "addons-config.conf"
Then reboot the NAS to verify the problem is fixed.
OK...Update
I went in SSH using Putty and deleted webroot.conf and addons-config.conf...that did that. By the way... the CreateMissingSharePath restored the "backup" folder
Now...the only thing that exists is "C" and "Home" showing up on my PC's Network Path; Ex; Readynas (NAS).
Well..I never saw the "C" and "Home" shares until I read something and then selected "User" from Radiator Security Mode. Changed it back to "Share" but "C" and "Home" remained. I haven't logged in any differently; like you stated as "admin" so I cant see whats happening there.
I appeciate all the help - rkeranAspirantI just ran into this issue with my ReadyNAS Duo and would like to confirm the following for anyone else that experiences it. I installed - and subsequently de-installed - the Transmission addon which resulted in "webroot" and "addon-config" phantom shares being left on my device. I had the same issues discussed throughout the thread re. not being able to see the shares in Frontview, and I could not delete them via normal access to the device (as an admin user via AFP or CIFS). Firmware reloads and/or updates did not correct the issue and I was loathe to reset the device to factory settings forcing me to backup and re-sync 2TB of media. I finally loaded the addons suggested (Enable Root SSH Access; Toggle SSH) and accessed the device via SSH using Cyberduck on my MacBook Pro. After deleting the "addons-config.conf" and "webroot.conf" files found in /etc/frontview/samba/addons, everything is back to normal and at least I learned how to SSH into my ReadyNAS Duo in the process...nerve-wracking as it was. My thanks to all the other posters for their help and info here.
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