Guest razedk Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 I have samba enabled and running, and sharing a folder is incredible easy using konqueror on a normal harddisk. When I right-click a folder and click on Share I get a properties page with a Share tab. But when doing the same on my USB harddisk folder (icon) the Share tab is gone. So my question is, how do I enable sharing of my USB harddisk ? [moved from Software by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Shot it the dark here but - I first thought it was due to the mounting arguments. You see I had a hard time sharing a fat32 filesystem over samba until I used different arguments in fstab. Im not at home but I think it was the umask=000 option. I think usbdrives are commonly fat32 (guess) so it may be the mounting arguments. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest razedk Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 I don't know if the user mask has anything to do with it but maybe. This is what I did: 1) Changed umask from 0222 to 0 to have write access 2) Mounted the drive using Mandriva Linux Control Center - Network Sharing - Manage Samba configuration. For some odd reason I couldn't mount the disk by right clicking on /media/hd and do sharing that way. But doesn't matter now, it works and I am happy. Thanks for the advice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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