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steveTu
Nov 09, 2019Apprentice
ReadyNAS RN212 - Alerts Email, NFS and default shares
OS6.10.2 1) Setting up alerts - I have tried to confiugure the EMail alerts, but it fails on sending a test mail. The host I have as smtp.hosts.co.uk on port 465, the 'From' is my Email add...
- Nov 10, 2019
steveTu wrote:
2) The default shares - Music, Pictures and Videos. I would like to create a mountable NFS share above those as 'media' (as my old ReadyNas Duo had) - so I can keep structures the same across the NASs. Can I just delete the existing shares and recreate them under a new 'media' share? Any implications?
You can delete the default shares, and create your own media share. That could have subfolders for Music, Pictures and Videos - or not, that is up to you.
You can't create shares within shares though (which couldn't be done on the Duo either).
The mount for NFS will be /data/media - unlike the Duo, the volume is included in the exported path.
StephenB
Nov 10, 2019Guru - Experienced User
steveTu wrote:
2) The default shares - Music, Pictures and Videos. I would like to create a mountable NFS share above those as 'media' (as my old ReadyNas Duo had) - so I can keep structures the same across the NASs. Can I just delete the existing shares and recreate them under a new 'media' share? Any implications?
You can delete the default shares, and create your own media share. That could have subfolders for Music, Pictures and Videos - or not, that is up to you.
You can't create shares within shares though (which couldn't be done on the Duo either).
The mount for NFS will be /data/media - unlike the Duo, the volume is included in the exported path.
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