All I want to do is share an external USB NTFS drive on my home network. The drive is attached to my desktop box running Debian Lenny. It's accessible on the desktop. I have a directory on the drive that I would like to make accessible to a Windows XP laptop. Read-only would be fine. The laptop has wireless access to the network.

I've been following advice, looking up links and reading tutorials now for months, off and on, and have had absolutely no success. Can anyone help me out, on or offline? If you want me to post the contents of files or logs, just let me know and I'll do it.

Thanks.

Frustrated by samba?
Looks like somebody ain't got the rhythm.

0 members found this post helpful.

See if you have the Samba-doc package installed. It supplies the "Samba-3 by Example". If you don't have it, you can download it here:
www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-ByExample.pdf

One of the examples is for a document server. It also takes you step by step though the process. Including what ownership and permissions to use for the directory you want to share.

I would recommend mounting the external drive from an /etc/fstab entry and not relying on automounting. The /media directory is intended for dynamic automatic mount (But that may be after FC3).

1 members found this post helpful.

Mr-Bisquit: If you had continued to help the OP, that would be one thing. Trolling like you did was bad mannered and also removed the thread from the zero reply list.

1 members found this post helpful.

you'll have to be more explicit. what you did? how did you try to configure your box? how's your Samba config file?

If you want me to be more explicit, ask explicit questions. If I knew what I was doing I probably wouldn't have a problem. I explained in my original post exactly what I'm trying to do.


My current smb.conf is:

[global]
security = SHARE
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = batcave
passdb backend = guest

[OneTouch]
comment = External 500G
path = /media/OneTouch 4
guest ok = Yes
=============================

I'm off reading Samba3-ByExample.pdf . . .

Solved! I followed the first example in Samba3-ByExample.pdf and I'm up. As far as I can tell, the only meaningful difference from what I was doing before was editing the /etc/hosts file. No information I had come across before told me to do that.

Be sure you run "testparm" after editing /etc/samba/smb.conf. It will perform error checking. A common thing to miss (for shares that require authentication) is to not create a local Linux user for the person at the client, and running smbpasswd smbpasswd to create a Samba user/password entry. Glad you got it working.

1 members found this post helpful.

I'm part Brasilian, so when someone mentions Samba I think: Surdo, repinique, Timbalada, Zeca, etc. Get it?

Seems to me that the word came from my culture not the Linux community.

Think about that next time.

0 members found this post helpful.