Basic unix question. On my Slackware server I sync my /home to my laptop. so I have for example:

/home/Eugene/Music
/home/Eugene/Documents
/home/Eugene/Downloads


I also have some exports and samba shares at /home/shares/Music exported as /export/Shares (IIRC webmin sets up export with links to whatever folder you export).

So I have:

/home/Shares/Music
/home/Shares/Pictures
/home/Shares/Software

I don't want/need two copies of Music but need the one under /home/Eugene because my Owncloud client doesn't sync symlinks

So I tried to replace /home/Shares/Music to /home/Eugene/Music but get access denied trying to access it from a remote linux box.

I'm guessing basic permissions, I need to make me and shares part of a group?

I would bind mount I think.

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This remember me the thread about setting up a home server with Slackware, let me maintain my approach: an issue involving Samba, Webmin (and whatever Owncloud could be) is not a "Basic Unix question". I bet the issue is in the aforementioned software, not in Unix permissions.

For example, managing Samba permissions is a nightmare, a "Samba" nightmare. You have to try different values in smb.conf to get it working in the way you want ("create mask" and "directory mask" values).

quick fix, maybe
use hard links instead of soft links

Doesn't my post compliment your approach?
Leave it in your shares dir. Make sure your users permissions are all fine since you mentioned lack of privledge. Bind this directory to your home dir. Now owncloud should be happy and everything should work how you want.

Remember you'll prob want to add the 3 fstab entries.

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Owncloud is a simple sync tool. I think its basic permissions, i.e. how do I allow one user to access a folder under another user's home folder.

http://slackbook.org/html/book.html#...RE-PERMISSIONS ?

Ok, I looked up the bind mount and thats what webmin does when you create exports via it so I just added one more:

/home/Eugene /export/Eugene bind bind 0
/home/Shares /export/Shares bind bind 0
/home/Eugene/ownCloud/Music /home/Shares/Music bind bind 0

In case your wondering basically I just have /home on a dedicated partition and then just plug an a USB drive and rsync /home to it then stick it back in my safe for offline backups. So for all my shared stuff, i.e. stuff that I give access to my wife and kids and the living room media center I just put under a user called shares. I didn't want my Music folder duplicated though as that just wastes backup space.

Ok, I take it back, it works if I browse /home/Shares/Music but not /export/Shares/Music.

Have /home/Shares/Music mounted before /export/Shares. This is just a guess but I have a feeling it'll work. Nevertheless I'm really curious as to why.. Does bind mounting keep static record of the existing inodes.. I always thought it worked more like a windows junction