Toggle or temporarily "disable" a share? Is this possible?

[winnielinnie]

Is there a way to temporarily disable an SMB share without having to delete it?

Sometimes I would like to just disable a less frequently used share (to transfer large files for a specific purpose), and then I would prefer to disable the share until it's needed again. I know I can delete it, and then re-create it, but I was wondering if I can simply disable it momentarily?

Other menus have an "enable" checkbox, which serves as a basic on/off toggle.

 

[Basil Hendroff]

Try toggling Browseable to Network Clients on the share.

 

[Samuel Tai]

There's no GUI toggle for this. I experimented with adding "available = no" into a share definition in /usr/local/etc/smb4_shares.conf, but this doesn't survive a restart of the SMB service necessary to enable the change.

 

[Basil Hendroff]

There's no GUI toggle for this.

Under Advanced Mode for the share in question.

 

[Samuel Tai]

Under Advanced Mode for the share in question.

Sorry, I meant no GUI toggle for enabling/disabling the share.

 

[winnielinnie]

Try toggling Browseable to Network Clients on the share.

That wouldn't work, since the share is still accessible via shortcuts, network drives, bookmarks, or manually entering it into a location bar.

I checked under Advanced Mode, but there is no such GUI toggle or checkbox for enabling / disabling the share, as Samuel Tai noted.

Samuel, I just experimented with the Auxiliary Parameters, and adding available=no (without quotes, without spaces) to the specific share seems to work, effective immediately after I click save! This should survive reboots and service restarts, as well. Thanks for the tip!

However, it would be nice, and make for a better experience, to have this as a simple checkbox, just like with other sections in the FreeNAS GUI. (See screenshots below.) For now it appears I'll have to change the yes to a no, back and forth, rather than checking a box.

One for the feature requests, I guess!

Should be fairly easy to implement, as all the checkbox would need to do is essentially change the yes to a no for the parameter available=yes

 

[winnielinnie]

I made a suggestion on the Jira Tracker. I think I did this right? I am a simple person. Bug Trackers always confuse me.

https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-106211