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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