Hi!
Its my first message on this forum, and is only 2 weeks that I've built with love my home media center!
I've proceeded slowly and steady, but I'm facing a big issue that I didn't resolved after days, so I must ask to someone that know this better than me.
The situation is this:
I want to share some folders that are on the OMV External Hard Drive. These folders are the classic folders you can image (Media\,Projects\,Software\, ecc).
Now: I want to set that only a subset of all users can access ALL the folders: some other users could only access one or two folder. This could be easily done using the "Privileges" button" on the 'User' control panel.
The issue is this: I want to access these folder from Windows.
Unfortunately (for some reason) the server doesn't show up from the "Network" devices on Explorer, so the only way to have access to these folder is to "mount" single folders through the "Add network share" option in "My Computer" screen. This mean that I have to create an entry for EACH folder I want to share. This is really annoying because I have 7-8 folders, and they fill the whole page. Also, I have to access my server from outside home, so I have to re-create all entries another time.
So I had a good idea: create a "root" shared folder, that point to "/" (The whole hard drive), so I have to mount only one folder to have access to the whole hard drive.
But then I'm facing a "permissions hell", because with users with 'limited privileges' I can only:
- Deny the access to "root" folder -> User now can't access ANY folder on disk (even if I say that they can use a subset of folders).
- Allow the access to "root" folder -> They can see everything, and is wrong.
How I can solve this situation?