Create a "Home" share?

[depasseg]

It would make things so much easier for administration and backups if there were a home share so I could view all user folders at once. I can see the folder exists in the data directory, but there isn't a share available. Is there any way to access this folder via Samba and ReadyNAS Replicate?

Thanks,
Greg

Could I add a stanza like this from /etc/frontview/samba/Shares.conf

root@NAS3:/data# more /etc/frontview/samba/Shares.conf
[Backup]
  path = /data/Backup
  comment = "Backup folder"
  guest ok = 1
  force create mode = 0666
  create mask = 0666
  force directory mode = 1777
  directory mask = 1777
  admin users = "admin","DEPASSE\administrator"
  writeable = 1
  follow symlinks = 1
  wide links = 1
  shadow:snapdir = ../._share/Backup/.snapshot
---snipped for brevity, but all the shares are listed here---

root@NAS3:/data# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs          4.0G  1.3G  2.2G  38% /
tmpfs            10M  4.0K   10M   1% /dev
/dev/md0        4.0G  1.3G  2.2G  38% /
tmpfs           1.9G   44K  1.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           1.9G   18M  1.9G   1% /run
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /media
/dev/md127       14T   11T  2.7T  80% /data
/dev/md127       14T   11T  2.7T  80% /home
/dev/md127       14T   11T  2.7T  80% /apps
tmpfs            50M     0   50M   0% /var/replicate/shm
/dev/md127       14T   11T  2.7T  80% /run/nfs4/data/media
/dev/md127       14T   11T  2.7T  80% /run/nfs4/data/VMFS1
root@NAS3:/data# 
root@NAS3:/data# 
root@NAS3:/data# df -i
Filesystem     Inodes IUsed  IFree IUse% Mounted on
rootfs              0     0      0     - /
tmpfs          492397   503 491894    1% /dev
/dev/md0            0     0      0     - /
tmpfs          492397     2 492395    1% /dev/shm
tmpfs          492397   645 491752    1% /run
tmpfs          492397     4 492393    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs          492397     1 492396    1% /media
/dev/md127          0     0      0     - /data
/dev/md127          0     0      0     - /home
/dev/md127          0     0      0     - /apps
tmpfs          492397     7 492390    1% /var/replicate/shm
/dev/md127          0     0      0     - /run/nfs4/data/media
/dev/md127          0     0      0     - /run/nfs4/data/VMFS1
root@NAS3:/data# 
root@NAS3:/data# 
root@NAS3:/data#  ls -la
total 64
drwxr-xr-x  1 root          root            206 Sep  8 18:41 .
drwxr-xr-x  1 root          root            266 Sep  8 18:39 ..
drwxrwxrwx  1 root          root             80 Jun 12 16:49 .apps
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 guest         guest             0 Sep  8 18:33 Backup
-rw-r--r--  1 root          root          54720 Jul 13  2013 dmesg
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 guest         guest            10 Feb 21  2014 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  1 admin         admin            24 Sep  5  2013 home
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 guest         domain admins   930 Apr 16 00:18 media
drwxr-xr-x  1 admin         admin             0 Feb 21  2014 Media
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 guest         guest             0 Sep  5  2013 Music
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 guest         guest             0 Sep  5  2013 Pictures
drwx------  1 root          root              0 Sep  7  2013 .purge
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 guest         guest             0 Sep  5  2013 readydrop
drwxr-xr-x  1 root          root            106 Jun 12 16:49 ._share
drwx------  1 ReadyNAS                 96   152 Sep  8 18:54 .timemachine
drwx------  1 root          root              0 Jul 12  2013 .vault
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 guest         guest             0 Sep  5  2013 Videos
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 administrator domain admins   328 May 14 23:06 VMFS1
root@NAS3:/data# 
root@NAS3:/data# 
root@NAS3:/data# smbclient -L localhost
WARNING: The "null passwords" option is deprecated
Enter root's password: 
Domain=[DEPASSE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.16]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service ("NAS3")
        VMFS1           Disk      
        Videos          Disk      Video folder
        readydrop       Disk      
        Pictures        Disk      Picture folder
        Music           Disk      Music folder
        media           Disk      
        Documents       Disk      Document folder
        Backup          Disk      Backup folder
Domain=[DEPASSE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.16]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        AD1                  
        AD2                  
        M4700                
        NAS3                 NAS3
        VCENTER              
        WIN7-PC              

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        DEPASSE              NAS3
        VOLUME               NAS1
        WORKGROUP            
root@NAS3:/data# 

[mdgm-ntgr]

Have you tried logging in to samba as the admin (Frontview) user?

If you do that you should be able to see the home shares and also the entire data volume.

[StephenB]

You can also back up all home shares from Frontview Backup. Its one of the choices in the pulldown menu.

[depasseg]

StephenB wrote:
You can also back up all home shares from Frontview Backup. Its one of the choices in the pulldown menu.

But I can't use Frontview backup for site to site and manage it as easily as in ReadyNas replicate.

[depasseg]

mdgm wrote:
Have you tried logging in to samba as the admin (Frontview) user? If you do that you should be able to see the home shares and also the entire data volume.

Thank you that does work, but why can't I do this from a Domain Admin account in the Domain I'm trying to manage.

[mdgm-ntgr]

depasseg wrote:
Thank you that does work, but why can't I do this from a Domain Admin account in the Domain I'm trying to manage.

I believe this will be addressed in a future firmware release.