Tutorial: Share the full Hard Disk via SMB/CIFS

This guide only works with SMB/CIFS. It does not work with NFS!

Hey Users,

i just thought i write this little Tutorial on how to make Shared Folder that allocates all your shares on your OMV within one folder.
This guide only works if you have all your shares on one hard disk respectively on the same raid.
(You simply share your whole data drive, but without write access to the root of the drive!)

Change to your hard disk via ssh

cd /media/UUID

Create the Symlink, I call it RStorage, short for RaidStorage.

ln -s /media/UUID RStorage

You can check that your Symlink works, if you change to the new "directory".

cd RStorage
ls -l

You should see the same output as if you were at /media/UUID.

Now you need to add the directory as a shared Folder in the OMV Webinterface.
You need to get yourself the rights to acces this Folder with Read/Write access, under Priviliges and ACL.

After that you add it as an SMB/CIFS share and add the following under extra options for that share:

symlinks = yes
wide links = yes

You now can open that share like you would open any other share or mount it as a network drive.

Greetings
David