how to: Make an existing folder a network share (SMB)?

[stevech]

With DSM
how to: Make an existing folder a network share (SMB)?

[Flopper]

Ihave look an looked for this yself some time back, but I found no way possible to do this in DSM

[myCloud]

Create a shared folder on the DiskStation with the same name and move the contents of the original folder to it. Of course, it won't be in the same hierarchy on the DiskStation anymore because the latter reflects the same structure as that on the network. Even from a Windows computer, the network share is at the root level regardless of where it is in the hierarchy on the disk.

[Flopper]

That is what I wanted to add as a workaround, but ommitted it because the Windows mappings will not work anymore.

[stevech]

thanks for the suggestion... but what I wanted to do is have the Synology present to the network a shared folder. But that folder is stored within an existing NAS folder.

What I'm trying to do is simplify backups - where I don't have to have a backup job for each shared folder.

[Flopper]

We understand what you want to do, but we tell you what to do, there is no other way on a NAS

[stevech]

OK, got it... can't be done.

[Noah]

I'm afraid I don't even understand the question

[stevech]

It's like you're used to in a windows PC. There's a existing folder (directory) and you change it to be shared on the LAN via SMB.
In the DSM, this might be a folder B nested inside an existing shared folder A - so that the higher up folders in A are not visible to those using folder B.

[melbourne]

thanks for the suggestion... but what I wanted to do is have the Synology present to the network a shared folder. But that folder is stored within an existing NAS folder.

What I'm trying to do is simplify backups - where I don't have to have a backup job for each shared folder.

Create a new empty share with the correct name.
Into that share, place a SYMLINK to the real folder.

Google "Synology create Symlink" for instructions.