Default Shared Folders

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Default Shared Folders

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Hi,

I recently moved from Synology to Asustor.

After initilisation, I notice the Asustor creates several default shared folders such as Public, Home, User Homes, Web etc.

This is annoying because I see these when browsing the NAS via my Windows PC (using file explorer). The Public share I can remove, some I can tick the box for 'invisible in network or my network places', and others where I don't have either option I can tick "Disable file access to this shared folder".

All these options removes the folder from my Windows explorer view, but will this cause any performance issues. I'm not sure if the "Disable file access to this shared folder" on a default folder that won't allow you to remove it is an issue?

Please help with the action that can be taken for each of these.

Many thanks
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Re: Default Shared Folders

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The two shares you can't remove are the Home (the logged in user's home space /volume1/home/username) and User Homes (all users home space /volume1/home). Even you can't remove them, you can safely hide or disable its samba/ADM access without performance issue.
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Re: Default Shared Folders

Post by digitalfm »

Thanks for that, makes sense.

Is it right to assume the 'Public' folder is simply an empty default shared drive for people to use if they want, but if you chose not to can be deleted completely without issue i.e. not used for any system files etc?
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Re: Default Shared Folders

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Yup. You can also turn the public folder into a read-only public pickup box for all users to access.
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Re: Default Shared Folders

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or remove it permanently:

ssh root@192.168.50.80 (or whichever your nas ip is)
rm -rf /volume1/Public
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