On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:23:44 +0100, Roger Grosswiler <roger@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx schrieb: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:08:07PM +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > > >>On 8 Feb 2005, at 19:13, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx 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. -- David ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
