[NFS/Samba] Sharing outside of /home..

[Guest Danomatic]

I've got NFS/Samba file sharing working just fine between 2 MDK 10.0 boxes through a LinkSys router. Sharing files from either box in the /home directory works great.

 

What I'd like to do is to allocate/share an entire drive from one box to another. Perhaps I've overlooked something simple or I'm just an idiot. So far MDK 10.0 doesn't like to share outside the /home partition. Where can I change this? You'd think that it'd just be a simple change to a .conf file ( 'cause MDK Wizards don't allow sharing outside /home).

 

I assume I would export something like /mnt/hdb1. Or perhaps export the device location itself ( something like /dev/ide/bus0/...etc. ). But so far no luck.

 

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Edited June 27, 2004 by Danomatic

[armondf]

Hi there

 

Samba's configuration files are found in /etc/samba/

 

The main conf file is smb.conf. You would like to share your entire drive? just share root (/) -- not the other root (/root).

 

Like So (Warning: This shares all files and makes things writeable if the root password is provided):

 

vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
### You're in VI, use keyboard arrows to move about, [insert] to insert
Add the following to the file
[everything]
  comment = everything
  path = /
  public = yes
  writable = yes
  printable = no
### [esc] wq!   to write and quit

 

restart samba, mount from the other machine like so

mkdir /tmp/machine1
mount -smbfs //machine1/everything /tmp/machine1

 

Regards,

 

Armond

Edited June 27, 2004 by armondf

[SoulSe]

Samba/NFS ???

 

They are two very different ways of network file-sharing, maybe I'm not reading your post right...

 

Anyway, armondf is right about Samba, for NFS checkout /etc/exports - you can add shares to your NFS server from there. Also do

$ man exports

To make sure you do 'em right ;)