[ale] samba conf

[Gary S. Mackay]

Hee, hee! Hang in there fella! It's gets better, really! :) See if I can go
through the steps for you:

Does the hard drive show up in 'dmesg'? (I'm guessing it does since you
mention /dev/hdc1)
  If so, run these commands: (no quotes)
    'mke2fs /dev/hdc1' command. (Formats the drive for linux)
    'mkdir /shared'             (Creates a mount point(directory))
    'mount /dev/hdc1 /shared'   (Mounts the drive. Now you can cd to it and
use it)

The drive is now mounted and you can copy files to it via linux. To make this
permanent, edit the /etc/fstab file and add a line just like the other
/dev/hdaX lines only pointing to your new drive. (/dev/hdc1     /shared    
ext2    defaults     1 2)


The second step of this process is to let samba know this partition exists and
share it.
  Edit your smb.conf file and add these lines to it:
     [shared]
       comment = Shared hard drive    <=== (or whatever you want it to say)
       path = /shared
       browseable = yes
       public = yes
       writeable = yes
       create mask = 0766
       directory mask = 0766
       admin users = luis             <=== (optional line)
       valid users = wife, mistress   <=== (optional line)
       force group = users            <=== (optional line)
       
Thats it! Oh yeah, don't forget to restart samba (/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb
restart) to the changes will take effect.

I'd be glad to assist you via phone if you'd like. It took me awhile to grasp
the concept also, but once you do, you'll slap your forhead and say
"Oooohhh!!! I get it!!!!)

- Gary

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Luis Luna wrote:
> 
> Dear God,
> I just want to have one folder on the second harddrive, share the folder, I
> will be the only one that needs access to it, mount the folder from my NT
> box, and thats it. I don't get "> 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," I read and re-read the linux manual and man pages, I can't come up
> with how to format a drive and have a folder on it that is shared. MKFS is
> somewhat cryptic, at least to me. How do I list what is on a drive other
> than /? I mean do I type cd /dev/hdc1/foldername? Is there a "linux for
> dummies" book? I have one of the commercial linux books, one on redhat ver,
> I still don't get it after reading the chapter over and over again. My God,
> maybe using windows/nt/mac's for the past 9 years has knocked I.Q. points
> from my brain. /end ramble/ .
> So there I stand, here is my problem:
> 1. Share a hard-drive /dev/hdc1 which I installed after I ran the caldera
> opnlinux 2.3 program.
> 2. I want one folder on this hard-drive. I will create subfolders from my NT
> box when I connect to it.
> 3. I don't know what to put in my fstab file.
> 4. I have an NT box as domain controller.
> 5. NT boxes will be the only thing that connects to it.
> 6. My name is Luis - and I am a total newbie.
> 7. Seriously, any more pointers? I have 4 NT servers that are just file
> servers, if I can get linux to samba the files, I will get rid of at least 2
> servers, or is the learning curve so great that I am best off with NT?
> Sincerely,
> 
> (¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯)
>     Luis Carlos Luna, Associate AIA
>          Work: 612.332.1234
>     mailto:luis at btr-architects.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Hubbs [mailto:Jhubbs at niit.com]
> > Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 4:47 PM
> > To: Luis Luna; ale at ale.org
> > Subject: RE: [ale] samba conf
> >
> >
> > 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!
> > (¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯)
> >     Luis Carlos Luna, Associate AIA
> >          Work: 612.332.1234
> >     mailto:luis at btr-architects.com
> >
> >