Samba, windows, and multiple drives.

hondaman · 07-30-2005, 12:38 AM

I have a samba share defined in smb.conf that says "path = /home/hondaman/mount" Mount is a drive I added to to my linux box. I have this share mapped in windows, and windows displays the disk free properly of this drive. I now have another drive I added. Where or how do I mount it so that windows will display its disk free too?

Half_Elf · 07-30-2005, 05:48 PM

Correct me if I am wrong, but you did suceed mounting a drive in linux and sharing it with samba and now you ask how to do for a second drive ?

well... mount the drive ( mount /dev/hdX /where/you/want/it) then add this mount point to your smb.conf ?

hondaman · 07-30-2005, 08:23 PM

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Originally posted by Half_Elf
Correct me if I am wrong, but you did suceed mounting a drive in linux and sharing it with samba and now you ask how to do for a second drive ?

well... mount the drive ( mount /dev/hdX /where/you/want/it) then add this mount point to your smb.conf ?

Yes, I was able to mount both drives and access them. What i'd like is for windows explorer to report the disk free of each drive.

I tried this in my smb.conf:

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
path = /home/hondaman/mount
path = /home/hondaman/mount1

but it only displayed the last "path", not both.

Half_Elf · 07-31-2005, 12:26 AM

a "mounted" drive is like a new "letter" in windoze. Of course, you can't just "merge" together 2 drive just writing 2 path lines. The fact that you see the last one is mostly a weird way of samba to handle a buggy syntax atmo.
There is way to "merge" together 2 drives, make some search about software raid or any ways to "mixt" together 2 drives.

hondaman · 07-31-2005, 02:20 PM

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Originally posted by Half_Elf
a "mounted" drive is like a new "letter" in windoze. Of course, you can't just "merge" together 2 drive just writing 2 path lines. The fact that you see the last one is mostly a weird way of samba to handle a buggy syntax atmo.
There is way to "merge" together 2 drives, make some search about software raid or any ways to "mixt" together 2 drives.

So there is no way to mount the drives under my home directory in linux, then in windows, click on those mounts and have windows display the disk free of that particular drive?

Half_Elf · 08-01-2005, 12:00 AM

as I said, make TWO mount then make TWO shares. ONE share can't show you 2 drives UNLESS you are using some application, like software raid to "merge" together mounted partition, making them appears as one big partition for the system.

It's like a windows letters... can you share TWO letters under ONE share?

hondaman · 08-01-2005, 12:40 AM

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Originally posted by Half_Elf
as I said, make TWO mount then make TWO shares. ONE share can't show you 2 drives UNLESS you are using some application, like software raid to "merge" together mounted partition, making them appears as one big partition for the system.

It's like a windows letters... can you share TWO letters under ONE share?

Ok, makes sense. So how would I go about mapping to letters in windows to 2 shares in samba since I can only define one "path" in smb.conf

Half_Elf · 08-01-2005, 06:45 AM

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since I can only define one "path" in smb.conf

Since when? You can only define one path PER SHARE. No share can own 2 path, it would be senseless.
Take a look at /etc/samba/smb.conf.example and "man smb.conf"