Doubles Shares

[Silent54]

Just to be up front, I'm new to FreeNAS. Just trying to keep things simple until I get a better understanding of FreeNAS. I created two Windows shares, one for "Windowsbackup" and one for "Album". The problem I ran into was after creating the second share, "Album". When I navigate to the shares in Windows Explorer, I see both shares; however, within each share there are two folders Album and Windowsbackup.

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Album - share
Album
Windowsbackup
Windowsbackup - share
Album
Windowsbackup

No clue how this happened. I can only assume I didn't check a box somewhere when creating the shares and datasets. Just in case the info is necessary to help me figure this out, at the moment I only have two users and 1 group (family last name). Each user has webb as its primary group. Album is root owned with webb as group owners. Windowsbackup is owned by me and for the moment webb as group owner. Not sure if users or group ownership had anything to do with it. Just trying to figure out why each share has double folders instead of just one. Thanks for the help.

 

[Yell]

Please post a output of your windows share page (webgui).

looks like you did the following

Code:

Tank <-- Pool  <-- shared as Album AND Windowsbackup
   Album  <-- folder/dataset
   Windowsbackup <-- folder/dataset

Tank is shared as Album and Windowsbackup. ( you may give smb shares a different names)

 

[JaimieV]

In the UI, go to Sharing then click on your share.

In the settings window that pops up, the Path should be including the Album or Windowsbackup folder. I guess both of yours stop at the level above this.

So just change /mnt/volumename/path/
to /mnt/volumename/path/Album
and /mnt/volumename/path/Windowsbackup

/Edit: And then you probably need to restart the CIFS sharing.

 

[Silent54]

Thanks. That fixed the problem. I guess I got the setup out of order. I created the CIFS share first and then the dataset. So, the share path could only go as far as the volume name.

 

[JaimieV]

Ah! Yes, that's out of order. Always create your locations first, then share them.