SICK OF STUPID OWNERSHIP RULES!!
Mark Sargent
powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp
Wed Apr 20 08:23:37 UTC 2005
Richard Crawford wrote:
>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.
>
>
>
>
Hi All,
Kev, I've been where you are now. best advice I can give, is, 1. man's
can sometimes be , well, too techy for a newb. Search for some tutorials
instead. 2ndly, mate, sometimes, it's best to just walk away for a few
hours/dys/weeks even, till you feel refreshed enuff to get stressed
again..hehe..seriously, though, it's good advice, even if I say so
myself. Also, there are great people in here who will help you. Good
luck. Cheers.
Mark Sargent.
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