SICK OF STUPID OWNERSHIP RULES!!
Richard Crawford
rscrawford at mossroot.com
Wed Apr 20 07:33:55 UTC 2005
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 00:20, Kevin wrote:
> I am so sick of these stupid bloody ownership rules!
>
> All I want to do is share a FAT32 drive over the local
> network and allow anyone to read/write it!
>
> I don't care or want to know about GIDs and UIDs or
> any IDs, just put the thing out there for everyone.
>
> Man this is annoying. And I don't have time to read
> through pages of stupid blood man pages either!
>
> HELP!
The price one pays for security and stability, though, is complexity. You
can't get away from it. And man pages are your friends. And so is
http://www.samba.org.
In my own setup, I have a directory full of music that both my wife and I have
full access to. The section in smb.conf looks like this:
[our_music]
path = /path/to/music
force group = crawford
read only = No
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
guest ok = Yes
browseable = Yes
Mapping to this drive in Windows is a piece of cake. Mounting it in Linux is
a bit more complicated. I have this line in my /etc/fstab file on my FC3
laptop:
//hagrid/path/to/music /home/richard/Music smbfs
uid=500,gid=504,fmask=777,password="xxxxxxxx" 0 0
uid in this line is the uid of my account on Hagrid, and gid is the gid of the
group "crawford". These values can be found by examining /etc/passwd
and /etc/group on the host computer.
Of course, that's all assuming that the FAT32 filesystem you're trying to
share lives on a Linux box. If it lives on a Windows computer, then I have
no idea.
--
Richard S. Crawford
http://www.mossroot.com
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