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Disable Home Directory by creating new share with same name?
If I don't want to have Home folders and I don't want to use the ssh solutions posted on the forum to remove them (this for example), then can I simply remove the Home folders by creating a new share...
StephenB wrote:What firmware are you running? OS 6.x???
What I do myself is disable all file sharing protocols for home in the NAS web ui. After that I never see home shares.
Then just don't create a share with a matching name, and you can enable/disable the feature as you please.
Running OS 6
"What I do myself is disable all file sharing protocols for home in the NAS web ui. After that I never see home shares."
My concern with this approach is then I wouldn't get a Home directory for a Mac to put Time Machine backups on the RN. (See here.)
"Then just don't create a share with a matching name, and you can enable/disable the feature as you please."
Sorry, I don't think I understand you there.
If I already have Home directories or the RN keeps making new Home directories, then can I get rid of them ("disable" / "delete") by creating new shares using the same name?
RS55 wrote:
My concern with this approach is then I wouldn't get a Home directory for a Mac to put Time Machine backups on the RN. (See here.)
Got it - I'm not a Mac owner, so that didn't occur to me.
RS55 wrote:
If I already have Home directories or the RN keeps making new Home directories, then can I get rid of them ("disable" / "delete") by creating new shares using the same name?
Not something I've tried, but I think it would only disable the sharing. If you have a spare disk, you could test it. Just power down and remove your current disks (labeling by slot), and do a fresh install on the spare disk. Then see what happens. Power down and replace the original disks when you are finished with the test.
You should also see if time machine works when you've replaced the home folder with a public share.
I just did it on my sandbox NAS. Creating a share with the same name as a user share makes the original user share invisible to all but admin, but it's still there. Creating the folder then the user had the same results.
I don't have a Mac to test time machine or AFP protocol (if Time Machine can even still use that), but I suspect that invisibility applies to those as well.
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