Hi all,

Wierd problem, when I map a Windows Drive to my Ubuntu HTPC Samba share, Windows reports the free space as the free space on my root partition?!!?

HTPC Ubuntu server:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 12G 6.5G 4.0G 62% /udev 1.6G 308K 1.6G 1% /dev
none 1.6G 104K 1.6G 1% /dev/shm
none 1.6G 1.7M 1.6G 1% /var/run
none 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /var/lock
none 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /lib/init/rw
none 12G 6.5G 4.0G 62% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs
/dev/sda5 903G 761G 97G 89% /mnt/data
/dev/sr0 6.9G 6.9G 0 100% /media/cdrom0

So my root partition has 4gb free, and my samba share (/mnt/data) has 97gb free.


From Windows machine:

net use
Status Local Remote Network

-------------------------------------------------------------------
OK Z: \\xbmc\files MS Windows Network
The command completed successfully.


dir z:
Volume in drive Z is files
Volume Serial Number is 2920-051C

Directory of Z:\

11/01/2010 13:49 <DIR> .
10/07/2010 12:10 <DIR> ..
14/11/2010 09:44 <DIR> data
03/12/2009 16:15 <DIR> iso
11/01/2010 13:49 <DIR> vmdk
03/12/2009 14:21 <DIR> oldsrv
0 File(s) 0 bytes
6 Dir(s) 4,277,440,512 bytes free


Samba.conf
[global]
workgroup = HOME
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
dns proxy = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = tdbsam
obey pam restrictions = yes
unix password sync = yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
pam password change = yes
map to guest = bad user
usershare allow guests = yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = yes
create mask = 0700
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = no
[files]
comment = Files in /mnt
path = /mnt
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
create mask = 775
directory mask = 775

Any help would be appreciated - if you need more command outputs, just let me know.

TIA,
Joadoor

Because of your shared path is '/mnt' which was belong to root partition. If you want to share '/dev/sda5' then 'path' should be '/mnt/data'.

Cheers,
MT.

Thanks mac-tieu for the quick reply. Thought it might be something quite simple and obvious that I was missing.
Guess I need to have a reshuffle :-)
Cheers

Yep, thats sorted it! Thanks for your help.