I have two file systems that I would like to share that I currently don’t see through the samba share mechanism.
First, I have two machines that are dual boot systems. Both of these systems have large dos formatted file areas (drive d:) that are shared between windows and linux. How do I set these up to be shared? The File System refers to this as the windows folder.
Secondly, I would like to share a 500 gb usb connected volume. This is found in the ‘media’ folder in the File System.
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> I have two file systems that I would like to share that I currently
> don’t see through the samba share mechanism.
>
> First, I have two machines that are dual boot systems. Both of these
> systems have large dos formatted file areas (drive d:) that are shared
> between windows and linux. How do I set these up to be shared? The File
> System refers to this as the windows folder.
>
> Secondly, I would like to share a 500 gb usb connected volume. This is
> found in the ‘media’ folder in the File System.
>
> Help with this will be appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
vchapman;
Have you looked at the write up on classical shares here: http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosimpleshares.html
In Samba the classical shares are defined in /etc/samba/smb.conf. Exactly
how you configure them depends a lot on the type of access you wish to set.
Also, read on opening the firewall on swerdna’s site here: http://www.swerdna.net.au/linux.html
There are some changes for 11.1, not sure if swerdna has updated his site for
these, if not see his post(s) in this forum.
Be sure to create samba users with:
su
smbpasswd -a <username>
From windows you can share from the property tab on a folder.
And as just a reminder, make sure all the machines are in the same workgroup,
both windows and linux.
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P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
I did this on my old notebook like this. I mounted on boot the fat partition on a mount point in my standard users home dir. So it was a part of the normal home share.
The easiest way is to go to Yast->Network Services->Samba Server and add the share there. Make sure that the volume is read-writeable for the user that will access that share.