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L2's avatar
L2
Aspirant
Apr 19, 2018
Solved

Deleting old home folders

There was a thread about this stating you cannot delete home folders way back from 2016. I thought NetGear would have a real solution by now.   We use egnyte with our NAS for local speedy access. W...
File Sharing
  • L2's avatar
    L2
    May 04, 2018

    Afgter speaking with Netgear we will just ignore and leave the home folders alone.


    Thanks for your reply.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 20, 2018

Did you try turning off all the file transfer protocols on the home folder?  That will prevent any new ones from being created.  I think you'd need to use ssh to delete the ones that are already there.

L2's avatar
L2
Aspirant
Apr 20, 2018

I stopped sharing, tried to turn off SMB but, it will not allow. 

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    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Apr 20, 2018

    What firmware are you running?

    • L2's avatar
      L2
      Aspirant
      May 04, 2018

      Afgter speaking with Netgear we will just ignore and leave the home folders alone.


      Thanks for your reply.

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