Enabling and Disabling Home Shares

When Home Shares are enabled, Shares automatically creates and adds a private shares to new users when they first log into Shares. For more information, see Managing Home Shares.
  1. Go to Admin > Other > Home Shares.
  2. Select Enable Home Shares to enable the automatic creation of Home Shares.
  3. From the Node drop-down list, select a node. You can also add a new node by clicking New Node. For details on how to add a node, see Adding Nodes.
  4. Select the default directory or click Browse to select a different directory for the home share.
  5. Click Save.
Note: When you disable home shares, Home Shares that already exist are not affected, and existing users can use their existing Home Shares. Home Shares for new users are no longer created.
Note: When you modify the destination directory or node for Home Shares, existing Home Shares do not change to point to the new destination. Home Shares new users are now created at the new destination.
To disable a specific user's home shares, see Disabling a User's Home Share