Unable to edit or remove shared folder after deleting folder on SMB

Hello guys,

Just as a litte hint, if someone has the same issue.

i was having great issues as i was not able to edit or remove any shared folders on my omv 4 installation anymore, though it went all well before.

i always got different error messages like the attached one after pressing apply and i had to revert the action.

So what was finally the rootcause? I deleted in my windows machine (explorer to the smb) a folder, which was still a smb-share and a shared-folder in omv.

This was my setup on OMV 4:

I have a Drive called Media2, which i had shared as shared folder and as smb-share "Media2"
Inside this i had another shared folder, called series, which was also a separate shared folder and a separate smb-share "series"
Inside this i had another shared folder, called sort, which was also a separate shared folder and a separate smb-share "sort".

Media2 / series / sort

Now i did make the mistake to delete the folder series in windows (in the explorer window), though it was still mentioned as a shared folder in omv-webinterface.

This led to a problem on every change or deletion i wanted to do in omv, as this folder was no longer physical there, but omv thought so.

Problem was, i wanted to delete a very different Share "Media1" on a different drive, so i had first no connection between the rootcause and my tries to delete another Share

My resolution was very simple, after i figured it out.

I just recreated the deleted folder in the windows explorer and all went well again in OMV.

Maybe this can save some time, if you run into this kind of problem.

regards

gkhar2

yeah, seems like nested shares should be avoided.

I had to do it only because i collected huge amounts of data from different drives into one new big one, where i vreated the nested shared for simplicity for the rsync processes.

regards