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Samba - manually modify /etc/frontview/samba/Shares.conf
Hello, I had been making changes to /etc/frontview/samba/Shares.conf, basically to add 'mount points' lower in the directory hierarchy than just underneath the top directory, for which I have not found a way to do so in the GUI. I added entries to the end of the Shares.conf file.
This has worked well for a few months, but now, ReadyNas overwrites my manual edits/basically restores the conf file to what it was before my manual edits.
Is there a safe way of doing this so that my manual edits survive? It seems the first time I lost my manual edits was not related to a reboot, but I am not sure what triggered this.
I am on Firmware 6.10.3.
Put them in /etc/frontview/samba/addons/addons.conf instead. Note the locations in /etc/samba/smb.conf of the include statements for the otrher .conf files. Only /run/usb/samba/Shares.conf comes after addons.conf. So you can add to or override anything in the others via addons.conf. That's a double-edged sword, since you can do what you want but can also create problems with Samba access if you do something wrong.
Content in addons.conf is normally put there by apps, so the OS leaves them alone, even on a firmware update. It should be the same is true of an OS re-install, but I have not tried it
This is what's in my addons.conf, just to show how it works alongside the contents of smb.comf and all the other .conf files with an include statement.
[global] allow insecure wide links = yes unix extensions = no [ddclient] follow symlinks = yes wide links = yes
Note that I added options for both global and the ddclient share. These became necessary to allow the ddclient app configuration file to be accessible via a simlink in a normal share after one of the OS updates that updated Samba to a version where these were no longer the defaults.
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Put them in /etc/frontview/samba/addons/addons.conf instead. Note the locations in /etc/samba/smb.conf of the include statements for the otrher .conf files. Only /run/usb/samba/Shares.conf comes after addons.conf. So you can add to or override anything in the others via addons.conf. That's a double-edged sword, since you can do what you want but can also create problems with Samba access if you do something wrong.
Content in addons.conf is normally put there by apps, so the OS leaves them alone, even on a firmware update. It should be the same is true of an OS re-install, but I have not tried it
This is what's in my addons.conf, just to show how it works alongside the contents of smb.comf and all the other .conf files with an include statement.
[global] allow insecure wide links = yes unix extensions = no [ddclient] follow symlinks = yes wide links = yes
Note that I added options for both global and the ddclient share. These became necessary to allow the ddclient app configuration file to be accessible via a simlink in a normal share after one of the OS updates that updated Samba to a version where these were no longer the defaults.
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