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I have recently installed Slack 12 on my desktop machine changing from Kubuntu. During installation I created a partition specifically to use as a Samba share (/public). How can I share that a partition in Samba? I currently get the error "You can only share folders that are in your /home directory" or something to that effect. I would rather not set it up as root (if that is possible).

Thanks in advance,
Eric

There's no problem with setting it up as root, if by that you mean logging in as root, editing /etc/samba/smb.conf, creating a share and re-starting Samba. It's possible to restrict shares to users or groups and to force file and directory creation masks. For example:

Code:

[testshare]

  comment = Shared area for general access by the managers group

  path = /public

  writable = yes

  available = yes

  valid users = @managers

  create mask = 0660

  directory mask = 0770

  force group = managers

The Samba by Example docs are useful for setting up different share types.

Thank you gilead, I'll Give that a try tonight. I'll certainly read through the Samba by Example pages as well.

Thanks again,
Eric

Pfft. Edit /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment the line relating to SWAT, then `killall -HUP inetd` to tell the superserver daemon to re-read it's config file. Then point your browser at http://thatmachinename:901 and use the wizard to configure Samba. Much, much easier.

the wizard is certainy easier, however I can not see the server on any of my other machines. It may be a router thing, I'll have to look into it more.

are you just wanting a file server that any machine on your network can access? if so I can help here.

Here is my smb.conf file, notice the include statement so I can add machine specific shares to smb.conf.<machine name>

basically I added a user to the system (smbaccess) and added a directory (samba) to the home directory that I have a 320GB drive mounted to. smbaccess is the owner for that whole directory tree

also you might like to add a default WINS server in your routers dhcpd configuration to point at a samba system or a windows system, I had to do that before my network neighborhood would behave correctly (stupid windows)

pay attention to the hosts allow statement and edit it to your network

Code:

# the user needed for guest account is smbaccess

[global]

workgroup = MSHOME

security = share

netbios name = MICRON

null passwords = yes

passwd chat timeout = 26

server signing = Auto

server string = Samba %v on %L

paranoid server security = no

wins support = yes

preferred master = yes

time server = yes

domain master = yes

local master = yes

os level = 190

ldap ssl = No

disable netbios = no

DNS Proxy = no

name resolve order = bcast wins

hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2.

hosts deny = ALL 

restrict anonymous = no

message command = /bin/mail -s "SMB Message From %f on %m" root <%s; rm %s &

deadtime = 10

:max disk size = 20000

read only = yes

guest account = smbaccess

invalid users = root bin daemon adm sync halt mail news uucp operator

load printers = no

include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.%m







[global share]

path = /home/samba/gshares

guest ok = yes

guest only = yes

browseable = yes

case sensitive = no

write ok = yes



[backup]

path = /home/samba/backup

guest ok = yes

guest only = yes

browseable = no

case sensitive = no

write ok = yes



[Linux]

path = /home/samba/linux

guest ok = yes

guest only = yes

case sensitive = no

write ok = no



[MP3s]

path = /home/samba/mp3s

guest ok = yes

guest only = yes

case sensitive = no

write ok = yes

hope that helps a bit
nekkutta

Thanks, nekkutta that is exactly what I am trying to do. I have already created a new user (sambauser) and a new group (sambagroup) with ownership of all the files in the shared directory (/public) I have not had enough time to play with the samba/router configuration.

Thanks again,
Eric

another thing you might want to do is add a root cron entry for '/bin/chown -R sambauser:sambagroup <your shared base directory>/*' that way if you ssh to the machine and move stuff around with someone other than sambauser (ie. root) you won't have to worry about permissions. I've gotten bitten by that a couple times before I looked up how to use cron.

nekkutta