Manually create SMB and NFS share

fastfwd

fastfwd wrote:

F.L. wrote: Yes, In the System -> Services I click on NFS and uncheck the box Enable NFS, then APPLY. Wait... So you're only disabling NFS, not also re-enabling it? F.L. wrote: On my Ultra the "standard" shares are still visible when running exportfs, even if NFS is disabled (NFS button is not green). However, my share that I added by editing etc/exports and exportfs -a disappears. That's not how it works on my Ultra 2 Plus (OS 4.2.26). With NFS enabled in Frontview:System:Standard File Protocols, I created a share from within Frontview and enabled NFS access to it. That automatically added it to /etc/exports and made it appear in the exportfs output, as expected: NAS2:/# cat /etc/exports "/nfstest" *(insecure,insecure_locks,ro,sync) NAS2:/# NAS2:/# exportfs /c/nfstest <world> NAS2:/# Then I disabled NFS from Frontview. This cleared the exportfs output (note that this behavior is different from what you reported): NAS2:/# exportfs NAS2:/# Then I edited /etc/exports manually to add a new share: NAS2:/# cat /etc/exports "/nfstest" *(insecure,insecure_locks,ro,sync) "/nfstest_manual" *(insecure,insecure_locks,ro,sync) NAS2:/# Exporting the shares, even with the NFS server stopped, made them both show up in the exportfs output (I didn't expect this): NAS2:/# exportfs -a exportfs: /etc/exports [1]: Neither 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export "*:/nfstest". Assuming default behaviour ('no_subtree_check'). NOTE: this default has changed since nfs-utils version 1.0.x exportfs: /etc/exports [2]: Neither 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export "*:/nfstest_manual". Assuming default behaviour ('no_subtree_check'). NOTE: this default has changed since nfs-utils version 1.0.x NAS2:/# exportfs /c/nfstest_manual <world> /c/nfstest <world> NAS2:/# Re-enabling NFS from within Frontview didn't change anything; exportfs still shows both shares: NAS2:/# exportfs /c/nfstest_manual <world> /c/nfstest <world> NAS2:/# Disabling NFS from within Frontview makes them both disappear from the exportfs output (again, this is not the behavior that you reported): NAS2:/# exportfs NAS2:/# And re-enabling NFS brings them both back: NAS2:/# exportfs /c/nfstest_manual <world> /c/nfstest <world> NAS2:/# I don't know why your system apparently behaves differently from mine, but I'm also not too sure that it matters: Do we really care whether a directory appears in the exportfs list while the NFS server is disabled? The important thing is that it's in the exportfs list while the NFS server is running, right?

I am enabling it again.
Strange that it doesn't behave the same way but I fully agree with you that it doesn't matter how it looks when NFS is disabled.
StephenB: I would prefer to do it in FrontView if possible, didn't think it was.

Basically I want to achieve this:
I have an already created folder I want to share using Samba and NFS.
Eg: \data\dir1\dir2\FolderToShare

I can't see any option to browse an already existing folder using "New Folder" under Shares.
So I assumed the only way was to add it manually in Shares.conf/addons.conf (for Samba) and to do something similar for NFS.

A workaround might be to create FolderToShare using FrontView and then change the path in Shares.conf/exports?
I will try this.
EDIT: Didn't work for me...