Mounting Network Drive(s)

[Mitch Wiedemann]

I'm not sure whether or not it's "bad practice", but it does seem like 
more of a short-term hack rather than a long-term solution.

If I were needing to provide secure FTP service for more that a few 
days, I'd definitely spend a little to get a bigger drive for the Linux 
box, or perhaps switch Linux and Windows on the boxen. (if possible)

Just my $0.02. Feel free to ignore it.

Jwp wrote:

> Hehe, little to fast on the draw there sorry about that.
>
> I run a small FTP server for friends and family through my Linux box, 
> and due to Hard Disk space limitations I store the files on a windows 
> machine with a much larger HDD. Now in order to allow each user access 
> I have mounted the shared windows drive (XPSHARE) into each FTP user’s 
> Home Dir.
>
> Is this a bad practice? If so is there another way to provide users 
> access to the network drive, while keeping them in CHROOT jail? I 
> tried mounting the network drive to an external mount point and then 
> mapping this folder to the user home dirs (but obviously that didn’t 
> work, understand I am new to linux).
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> JP
>
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