Samba: Ability to turn off whole drive sharing

ZimaOS
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Samba sharing works really neatly in v1.3.2-beta2!

I’ve set up some shares, some special users and the 1st Time Machine backup is running.

I see that Samba does share whole drives from /media by default:

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ZimaOS-HD and sda are my physical drives. Or kind of, at least there are mounted under /media.

This might be OK for beginners, but I’d prefer to only share specific folders, also for my main user. So I ask you to let us to stop sharing of whole drives.

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You can manage the permissions for the scond, third… user.

See this vid:

And this pic may be helpful:

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Hello, I am the product manager of ZimaOS
Receive your request and understand your concerns about Samba share whole drives
ZimaOS will make changes that allow you to turn it off @WuzzyFeasel

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Thank you, this sounds good! :+1:

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Some further information:

This happens only when turning on turning on Time Machine functionality on a folder.