[ale] samba conf

[Luis Luna]

Dear God,
I just want to have one folder on the second harddrive, share the folder, I
will be the only one that needs access to it, mount the folder from my NT
box, and thats it. I don't get "> where you "hang" a disk partition.  So,
when you set up a
> partition in fdisk
> or Disk Druid and give it a mount point like /var or /home, you have
> basically "hung" that partition to a place on the tree where the install
> procedure would have otherwise just created a directory in whatever
> partition you had set up as /.  This will become more intuitive over
time," I read and re-read the linux manual and man pages, I can't come up
with how to format a drive and have a folder on it that is shared. MKFS is
somewhat cryptic, at least to me. How do I list what is on a drive other
than /? I mean do I type cd /dev/hdc1/foldername? Is there a "linux for
dummies" book? I have one of the commercial linux books, one on redhat ver,
I still don't get it after reading the chapter over and over again. My God,
maybe using windows/nt/mac's for the past 9 years has knocked I.Q. points
from my brain. /end ramble/ .
So there I stand, here is my problem:
1. Share a hard-drive /dev/hdc1 which I installed after I ran the caldera
opnlinux 2.3 program.
2. I want one folder on this hard-drive. I will create subfolders from my NT
box when I connect to it.
3. I don't know what to put in my fstab file.
4. I have an NT box as domain controller.
5. NT boxes will be the only thing that connects to it.
6. My name is Luis - and I am a total newbie.
7. Seriously, any more pointers? I have 4 NT servers that are just file
servers, if I can get linux to samba the files, I will get rid of at least 2
servers, or is the learning curve so great that I am best off with NT?
Sincerely,

(¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯)
    Luis Carlos Luna, Associate AIA
         Work: 612.332.1234
    mailto:luis at btr-architects.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hubbs [mailto:Jhubbs at niit.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 4:47 PM
> To: Luis Luna; ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] samba conf
>
>
> Luis -
>
> By way of elaboration, regardless of your drive arrangement, your system's
> files, directories, devices, and other weird stuff I haven't
> figured out yet
> (/proc?) is all logically arranged as a hierarchy underneath /.
> If you set
> up a system with nothing but one Linux native partition and one Linux swap
> partition, your native partition (presumably /dev/hda1) will have
> everything
> in it (I think this will break if hda1 extends past the 1024th cylinder on
> the drive).  A "mount point" is basically the place on this
> upside-down tree
> where you "hang" a disk partition.  So, when you set up a
> partition in fdisk
> or Disk Druid and give it a mount point like /var or /home, you have
> basically "hung" that partition to a place on the tree where the install
> procedure would have otherwise just created a directory in whatever
> partition you had set up as /.  This will become more intuitive over time,
> and you will also be able to see how cool it is to "hang" smb shares (via
> smbmount) and NFS exports from other machines just like they were
> partitions
> on your own machine.
>
> One compelling reason to do the recommended thing where you make separate
> partitions for /usr, /usr/local, /var, /home, and sometimes even /etc is
> that overgrowth in one cannot cause problems in another.  So, if you add
> this other drive and use it for Samba - suppose you give it a
> mount point of
> /samba or whatever - no one will be able to fill the partition up
> and screw
> up your system (you'd be wise to implement disk quotas anyway to keep the
> magg...oops, USERS from being able to keep EACH OTHER from writing to the
> share by filling it up).  You invite problems if your samba share can grow
> without bound on the same partition as, say, /var.
>
> - Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Luna [mailto:Luis at btr-architects.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 4:00 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] samba conf
>
>
> Okay here are the answers to the questions about my conf, thanks for the
> fast reply by the way!
> 1.<For user access, did you enable
> encrypted passwords on the linux box? (recommended) If not, did
> you turn off
> encrypted passwords on the Winbloze box? (not recommended).>
> Reply- I turned on encrypted passwords on the linux box, edited the conf
> file where the howto's and comments said to.
> 2.It's complaining "User unknown", not "Password invalid", so
> What username
> are you logging into
> winbloze with?
> Reply - When I attempt to connect to a visable share on the linux box - a
> dialog box pops up and states "Incorrect password or unknown username Fpr
> \\sol\homes" I type in the user name I set up on both the linux
> box and the
> NT box, both passwords being the same. They are the same on the NT box,
> linux box, and samba.
> 3. Do you really want to mount /dev/hdc1 as /? - As for the second hard
> drive, you can NOT have more than one '/' (root)
> partition in a *nix system, so mount the new drive as "/public"
> or "/shared"
> or something like that. Then setup samba to share that partition.
> Reply - Oh, did not know that! Doh! I am coming from a windows/dos envir.
> and I am used to formatting a harddrive and sharing the drive.
> I looked on Caldera website for installing/formatting a second drive and I
> did't come across a difinitive way to setup a second drive.
> My fstab looks like this:
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> /proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/hdc1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> Question: If I change /dev/hdc1 / to /dev/hdc1 /shared will it
> automatically
> create /shared?
> 4. Questions that come to mind regarding Samba:  are you trying
> to integrate
> into a pre-existing NT domain environment?  Are you sure you
> should even be
> using smbpasswd?
> Reply - Yes, existing NT domain, smbpasswd is what I read that I
> should do.
> Maybe I read the howto's and did't understand them clearly? Very likely. I
> tried to read as much as possible before I posted.
> Thanks!
> (¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯)
>     Luis Carlos Luna, Associate AIA
>          Work: 612.332.1234
>     mailto:luis at btr-architects.com
>
>