Change Music share from /data/Music to /home/musik

Question

I have stored all my music in /home/musik, which e.g. works well for Logitech Media Server, which I simply point at that directory.&nbsp; However, the default SMB/DLNA share named "Music" points at /data/Music.&nbsp; How can I change the "Music" share so it points to /home/musik?&nbsp; If I modify /etc/fronview/​samba/Shares.conf, the change is lost at next reboot.
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I'm on a ReadyNas 212 with 6.9.4 Hotfix 1 firmware.

StephenB · Answer

Normally /home is for "private" shares.&nbsp; If you didn't create a musik user on the NAS, then you did something wrong by manually creating that folder.
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You could copy the files in /home/music into Music, and then remove musik - either by deleting the user (if you created one) or deleting the folder (if you didn't). After /home/musik is gone, you could rename the share to musik if you wish.
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Then reconfigure LMS to point to the share.

bengsig · Answer

It was a careful decision, and I do also have a user called "musik" (which is the Danish spelling for music...).&nbsp; I also NFS export /home to a few other systems that automount them and there, I set the umask for the musik user to 0002, again a careful decision.&nbsp; Whenever I add music to my collection, I do it from my laptop running Linux, which automounts the whole /home directory with my real user home directories, one of which is "musik".&nbsp; An additional benefit of everything in /home is that my cloud backup just needs to deal with one directory, namely /home.&nbsp;&nbsp;
So therefore, I truly would like to have the SAMBA/DLNA share that externally is "Music" have its contents in /home/musik.&nbsp; Will making /data/Music be a symbolic link to /home/musik do it?&nbsp; Are there other ways?&nbsp; As /etc/frontview/samba/Shares.conf gets overwritten at boot, where is the contents really saved?

TeknoJnky · Answer

Home is a system folder.
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You can't point the dlna to the home share.
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to change the (other) dlna shares you simply need to go to os6 admin page
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shares &gt; mouse over the share you wish to set &gt; click the gear icon &gt; settings &gt; network access &gt; click dlna &gt; enable the content types you want enabled for that share.
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bengsig · Answer

/home is a directory just like any other directory, and I NFS export it to other systems where I (manually rather than via e.g. NIS) have the same user and group id's, and having&nbsp;everything created by anybody and for any purpose under /home simplifies things a lot.&nbsp; Just one example is backup's, where all I need to care about is /home.&nbsp; Scattering things that users created into various places (like Windows does) only complicates things.&nbsp; So please, how do I achieve this?

StephenB · Answer

Note we are community members (Netgear customers) - not Netgear employees.
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bengsig&nbsp;wrote:
/home is a directory just like any other directory,

Actually it has different ACL than the public shares, and that also might be enforced by the ReadyNAS application.&nbsp; Note also that all shares are BTRFS subvolumes, and not just folders.&nbsp; Though since you did create a musik user, it sounds like the system created the /home/musik subvolume.
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Personally I don't use the home share(s), because they aren't as easy to restore as normal public shares.
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bengsig&nbsp;wrote:
So please, how do I achieve this?

The recommended way to do this would have been to create a public musik share (\data\musik), and optionally restrict access to the specific user (with a different username than musik).&nbsp; Or simply rename the music share and change the access.
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But as far as /home/musik goes - you can of course access musik with SMB already (using either the musik credentials or the NAS admin credentials).&nbsp; You can also remove the music share to prevent any confusion.
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You could also try creating an override file (/etc/minidlna.conf.local) as described here:&nbsp;https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS-in-Business/Unable-to-manually-edit-minidlna-conf-or-get-changes-to-stick/m-p/1555493&nbsp;
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