On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 18:35, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 18:26, Elwyn wrote: > > Hiya > > > > Of my 80gb Hdd I've got 65gb set up as my /home partition. > > > > What I'd like to do is setup 40gb or so of that as a Samba thing. > > > > I'm off for a look on the web, is the above feasable etc? > > > > I'd like the drive to be used for storage inside the network (behind a > > NAT Router). > > No problem at all. In /etc/samba/smb.conf you will need something like my > stanza > > [anne-public] > comment = Public in Anne's home dir. > path = /home/anne/Public > browsable = yes > writable = yes > > Remember that anyone who is going to be a samba user will need an account > on your box (just set up a user for each) and then you need 'smbpasswd add' > + username which will then prompt you for passwords. In the case of win98 > the user's login is sent as password. W2K and XP I believe can enable you > to use a different one. > > Anne
Thanks Anne, I've had a play and got something going but will follow your instructions and make it more stable :) Elwyn
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