Problem with smb shares.

[David Hoffman]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:23:44 +0100, Roger Grosswiler <roger at gwch.net> wrote:
> akonstam at trinity.edu schrieb:
> > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:08:07PM +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> >
> >>On 8 Feb 2005, at 19:13, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I know someone is going to tell me that google will give me the answer
> >>>but I am burdened with too much information already so I will ask this
> >>>anyway.
> >>>
> >>>Since W2k shares can have more than two levels but evidently not in
> >>>the smbmount that I am using so I can say:
> >>>smbmount //trinity-tiger/users .....
> >>>but not:
> >>>smbmount //trinity-tigers/users/csldap1 ...
> >>
> >>What's the problem with the first command? Why do you want to mount a
> >>subdirectory of a share instead of mounting the share directly?
> >
> > Well here is the deal. The managers of the system put users, faculty,
> > etc. in different subdirectories. When I use the first smbmount I
> > mount not the directory of csldap1 but the directory of all the
> > home directories of users of the system. I might be able to live with
> > that but it is annoying. Not to make a value judgement but MAC OS X
> > allows you to mount  using the share: //trinity-tigers/users/csldap1
> > to mount only the home directory of csldap1.
> i see 2 problems here:
> a) we are not using mac os x
> b) i can deal with userdirectories without mounting the main-share for
> all, if i put in my /etc/smb.conf the following for my user-shares:
> 
> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    path = /users/%U
>    guest ok = no
>    browseable = yes
>    writable = yes
>    create mask = 775
> 
> i have all my userdirs in a directory called users. I share all the
> homes with the %U afterwards, so if i user loggs in, the %U gets
> replaced by its user name - voilà, this works. Putting browseable=no
> hides the /users-share too. Still not perfect (would like to load a
> server-side-login-batch on linux too..) but even more elegant than
> having all shares seen by everybody.
> 
> HTH
> Roger
> 
> 

Roger, I think you have it backwards. He is not trying to share user
directories on his FC3 machine. He is trying to mount shares on a
Windows machine to his FC3 machine.

So the user shares are on the windows machine and he wants to connect
to the windows shares with Fedora.

It's not a question of setting up Samba, as that would provide shares
from Fedora TO windows.

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David
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