Re: samba config

2010-04-27 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 14:51 +, Nadim Hoque wrote: > Just to let you know I did mount the external in fstab already and all of my > drives are ext 3 or 4 (ill check later). But I will try the group sticky > notes. But other than these issues, is my smb.conf file pretty good? Another > thing,

RE: samba config

2010-04-27 Thread Taylor, Kaia
plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Technomage Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:44 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: samba config --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, u

Re: samba config

2010-04-27 Thread Technomage
On 4/27/10 7:51 AM, Nadim Hoque wrote: Just to let you know I did mount the external in fstab already and all of my drives are ext 3 or 4 (ill check later). But I will try the group sticky notes. But other than these issues, is my smb.conf file pretty good? Another thing, do samba users also

Re: samba config

2010-04-27 Thread Technomage
#1 - userland mounted external hard drives (/media) are not really suitable for using with samba. Samba expects a root mount. Put your entry into /etc/fstab for this external drive, mount it and leave it alone. To get ACL's, I think you are going to need a file system that supports extended

Re: samba config

2010-04-27 Thread Stephen
Honestly some level of LDAP helps the unix/samba continutiy a great deal. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 07:52 -0700, Stephen wrote: >> I oddly enough cheat on samba and use webmin to navigate its >> configuration. it helps quite a bit. >> >> http://ww

Re: samba config

2010-04-27 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 07:52 -0700, Stephen wrote: > I oddly enough cheat on samba and use webmin to navigate its > configuration. it helps quite a bit. > > http://www.webmin.com/ I don't think it is odd... it has a good system for creating samba users simultaneously with system users (but I n

Re: samba config

2010-04-27 Thread Stephen
I oddly enough cheat on samba and use webmin to navigate its configuration. it helps quite a bit. http://www.webmin.com/ On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote: > Hey > So I switched to ubuntu server 9.10 and I need to configure samba. What I > want to do is share folders in which on

Re: samba config

2010-04-27 Thread Nadim Hoque
the linux machine? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Craig White Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:03:39 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: samba config On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 20:56 -0700, Nadim Hoque wrote: > Hey > > > So I switched to ubuntu serve

Re: samba config

2010-04-27 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 20:56 -0700, Nadim Hoque wrote: > Hey > > > So I switched to ubuntu server 9.10 and I need to configure samba. > What I want to do is share folders in which only the owner has access > to. For instance I want to share my external drive and I am the owner > of that folder and

samba config

2010-04-26 Thread Nadim Hoque
Hey So I switched to ubuntu server 9.10 and I need to configure samba. What I want to do is share folders in which only the owner has access to. For instance I want to share my external drive and I am the owner of that folder and only if I put my credentials based off of the server information reg