Want the ability to share at a finer granularity than 'whole volume'

[flcontrol]

The only path that can be set when configuring new shares with the FreeNAS 8 web GUI is the main path for the drive volumes that's set when configuring the disks. It doesn't allow any other paths, so, only shares that all point to the same location can be set (alternative being go edit smb.conf yourself). Of two possible choices in the dropdown box, '...' and '/mnt/<name>', only the latter works, where <name> is always the same. If you select '...', an error results, producing a screen full of error information.

[hostman]

I'm also experiencing this in 0.7.2 Sabanda (revision 5543), it was working in the version prior.

Running ZFS, if that makes any difference.

[axel_2078]

I agree with you. I'm not digging how the new setup forces you to use the whole volume either.

[bsdimp]

We plan an enhancement that lets you specify any subdirectory of the volume (plus the ability to make that subdirectory, set ownership, etc).

[shadowwolf]

Looking forward to this fix.

[jpaetzel]

For ZFS volumes, you can now create, manage permissions of, and share datasets. For UFS it's still at the volume granularity.

[jpaetzel]

8.0.1 allows shares to be done at the directory level instead of the volume level.