Mounting external NTFS drive as a share

[danger781]

Hello all,

 

I am following this guide to mount my external HDD:

https://wiki.lime-technology.com/Mounting_an_external_USB_drive_having_an_existing_NTFS_file_system_in_READ/WRITE_mode_to_transport_files_from/to_unRaid_server

 

I have done the following based off the above:

cat /proc/partitions

mkdir /mnt/user/ExtHDD

mount -t ntfs-3g -o umask=111,dmask=000  /dev/sdg1 /mnt/user/ExtHDD

 

This works - I can view the contents of the disk via SSH. However I cannot view it as a share from the Web GUI or by navigating to it via Windows Explorer. 

 

Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible to mount the ExtHDD as a temporary share? 

[danger781]

However I can view the contents under..

 

http://<IPAddress>/Shares/Browse?dir=/mnt/user/ExtHDD

[itimpi]

That guide is very old and not the way to do things with v6.

 

if you simply install the 'Unassigned Devices' plugin in provides all the functionality required for mounting drives external to the array (including NTFS format ones) with full GUI support.   You can optionally share devices mounted this way as shares.