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Sharing whole C volume
Hi
I would like to know if this is possible to share the whole "C" volume . I used to own a DLink DNS320 which was sharing the whole volume Volume_1, and then you could configure other shares to a specific and existing/new folder of this volume. I find it way more logical and easy to work with than creating shared in the root of C volume.
For instance I used to work connect my computer to the Volume_1 share, and my room mate could only access the Volume_1/Medias/Videos folder using the Videos share I created. How can I achieve so with my Ultra 2 station ?
Thank you for you answers
Stan
I would like to know if this is possible to share the whole "C" volume . I used to own a DLink DNS320 which was sharing the whole volume Volume_1, and then you could configure other shares to a specific and existing/new folder of this volume. I find it way more logical and easy to work with than creating shared in the root of C volume.
For instance I used to work connect my computer to the Volume_1 share, and my room mate could only access the Volume_1/Medias/Videos folder using the Videos share I created. How can I achieve so with my Ultra 2 station ?
Thank you for you answers
Stan
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Not sure why the combination of HomeNAS and DriveC is important, it seems to me that you'd get the same behavior with just DriveC as the root.littomalt wrote: I'm not sure if this is your solution but for me this is working
I make one share and cal it "HomeNAS"
in home nas i have one directory called DriveC, and under i have several directories, like TV, Video, Pictures, Documents Child 1, Cild 2, Wife, etc
Setting permissions is not so good, because i have not found if its possible to give different access to a directory per user, ie TV read only for all, Documents Child 1 R/W.
If anybody know how to do this pleas inform me :-)
But what is nice is that i can mount all NAS in one drive on my PC, i map DriveC to N:, and of course i can mount t: to DriveC/TV and so on, this i do the children's computers like P: mount to DriveC/Child1. I find this better than home directories due to a simpler backup to ie jottacloud.no (they only allow one share - Like my N: drive - to be backed up and this way i backup all data from one share)
If you use admin credentials for the mapped drives you can also mount the NAS C volume directly (mount \\nasip\c)- Hi StephenB,
maybe you have right, but as i remember i could not mount root to a drive, or maybe it was that my external backup client did not accept this solution. I need all nas to be mounted to one drive to allow it to back up and still keep the lowest price for my external backup.
LoA - Well, your approach certainly works well for you, and enabling your external backup client is obviously important. While I'm thinking you might have avoided DriveC, that is just a nuance, and not worth a lot of time.
- You can't mount to c when Security Mode = Share
Not sure littomalt is doing that, though I guess it is possible.Michael@Oz wrote: You can't mount to c when Security Mode = Share
One more reason not to use share security I guess. Mine are set up to use user security, but I don't use home shares (never needed them).
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