Sharing folder over network that's not in $HOME

[kenton]

I've got an "archive" hard drive for all my ISO files, MP3s, blah blah. I'm trying to share the entire hard disk (it's just one partition, /mnt/hd) but it won't let me because it's not in my home files. Can anyone help? Thanks!

[liquidzoo]

What are you trying to share it through? Samba? NFS?

 

NFS is easy, you can set it up through Webmin; but it's Linux to Linux only AFAIK.

 

Samba is harder, but still really easy. I'll assume Mandrake for this:

 

Edit (as root) /etc/samba/smb.conf with your favorite editor. Near the bottom you will see a [myshare] entry. Set it up like this:

 

[myshare]
comment = <some comment about the share>
path = /path/to/share
valid users = <users here>
public = <no or yes>
writable = <no or yes>
printable = <no or yes>
create mask = 0765

 

The mask can be different (666 for read/write for all, 777 for read/write/execute for all, etc)

 

Save that file, then in a console su to root and type:

smbpasswd -a USER

Where USER is your XP user id (Win2k will not have to do this unless you're using an account other than the Administrator account). You will be prompted for a password for this user. Use your Windows password to make things easier.

 

After that, still in your root console, type:

service smb restart

 

At that point you should be all set. For more info, see the Samba FAQ here: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=16737

[kenton]

Worked great! Thanks a million!

 

I was trying to use smb, btw.