[ale] samba conf

[Jeff Hubbs]

Luis -

By way of elaboration, regardless of your drive arrangement, your system's
files, directories, devices, and other weird stuff I haven't figured out yet
(/proc?) is all logically arranged as a hierarchy underneath /.  If you set
up a system with nothing but one Linux native partition and one Linux swap
partition, your native partition (presumably /dev/hda1) will have everything
in it (I think this will break if hda1 extends past the 1024th cylinder on
the drive).  A "mount point" is basically the place on this upside-down tree
where you "hang" a disk partition.  So, when you set up a partition in fdisk
or Disk Druid and give it a mount point like /var or /home, you have
basically "hung" that partition to a place on the tree where the install
procedure would have otherwise just created a directory in whatever
partition you had set up as /.  This will become more intuitive over time,
and you will also be able to see how cool it is to "hang" smb shares (via
smbmount) and NFS exports from other machines just like they were partitions
on your own machine.

One compelling reason to do the recommended thing where you make separate
partitions for /usr, /usr/local, /var, /home, and sometimes even /etc is
that overgrowth in one cannot cause problems in another.  So, if you add
this other drive and use it for Samba - suppose you give it a mount point of
/samba or whatever - no one will be able to fill the partition up and screw
up your system (you'd be wise to implement disk quotas anyway to keep the
magg...oops, USERS from being able to keep EACH OTHER from writing to the
share by filling it up).  You invite problems if your samba share can grow
without bound on the same partition as, say, /var.

- Jeff

-----Original Message-----
 From: Luis Luna [mailto:Luis at btr-architects.com]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 4:00 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] samba conf


Okay here are the answers to the questions about my conf, thanks for the
fast reply by the way!
1.<For user access, did you enable
encrypted passwords on the linux box? (recommended) If not, did you turn off
encrypted passwords on the Winbloze box? (not recommended).>
Reply- I turned on encrypted passwords on the linux box, edited the conf
file where the howto's and comments said to.
2.It's complaining "User unknown", not "Password invalid", so What username
are you logging into
winbloze with?
Reply - When I attempt to connect to a visable share on the linux box - a
dialog box pops up and states "Incorrect password or unknown username Fpr
\\sol\homes" I type in the user name I set up on both the linux box and the
NT box, both passwords being the same. They are the same on the NT box,
linux box, and samba.
3. Do you really want to mount /dev/hdc1 as /? - As for the second hard
drive, you can NOT have more than one '/' (root)
partition in a *nix system, so mount the new drive as "/public" or "/shared"
or something like that. Then setup samba to share that partition.
Reply - Oh, did not know that! Doh! I am coming from a windows/dos envir.
and I am used to formatting a harddrive and sharing the drive.
I looked on Caldera website for installing/formatting a second drive and I
did't come across a difinitive way to setup a second drive.
My fstab looks like this:
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
Question: If I change /dev/hdc1 / to /dev/hdc1 /shared will it automatically
create /shared?
4. Questions that come to mind regarding Samba:  are you trying to integrate
into a pre-existing NT domain environment?  Are you sure you should even be
using smbpasswd?
Reply - Yes, existing NT domain, smbpasswd is what I read that I should do.
Maybe I read the howto's and did't understand them clearly? Very likely. I
tried to read as much as possible before I posted.
Thanks!
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    Luis Carlos Luna, Associate AIA
         Work: 612.332.1234
    mailto:luis at btr-architects.com