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Is the way the shares work reversed for you as well
After buying a RN104 to me it appears the way you setup your storage seems reverse. In a normal system you set up a top level directory then you create structure bellow which can have multiple differ...
It's not reversed, but it is flattened in some use cases.
-You can share the complete data volume of the NAS using admin credentials. You can't share a folder within a share (as you found out).
-My TV media players all happily accept multiple CIFS or NFS shares. So I just skip the "videos" root and have
--TV
--SD Movies
--HD Movies
..Kids
...
Differing access rights on folders within a share is I think another topic altogether. Personally I think that is best avoided with network storage.
-You can share the complete data volume of the NAS using admin credentials. You can't share a folder within a share (as you found out).
-My TV media players all happily accept multiple CIFS or NFS shares. So I just skip the "videos" root and have
--TV
--SD Movies
--HD Movies
..Kids
...
Differing access rights on folders within a share is I think another topic altogether. Personally I think that is best avoided with network storage.
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