Topic: Is there any modules to do what SWAT does?

[Cyrus Bharda]

Ok here's my problem, I am a relative noobie and what to add some hdd's to my SME box and share them so that Windohs can get to them. SWAT is supposed to be the easy way to do this, but its a BIG no no for the SME box as we all know. Well has anyone developed a module that could do what SWAT does saftly on a SME box?

Thanks

Cyrus Bharda

[chris meredith]

To do some basic sharing its not too bad doing it manually.  Go read the faqs on the samba site.

You might also try something like:
http://www.spanware.com/linkq/oldversion/sambalinkq.html

You can generate the file on another box then move it over.

[Kees Blokland]

Search for 'adding second disc drive' in these forums. Once disk is added, simply create your ibays and you are done

Life is not so difficult after all. sme is designed for all of this. don't try to reinvent the wheel

If I had the need to share all my mp3's on a seperate drive, I would mount this drive as

mount /dev/hdd  /home/files/ibays/mp3

and that whole drive will now hold the mp3 ibay.

if I were to add another drive that holds the files in the mp3 ibay than I would

mount /dev/hdc  /home/files/ibays/mp3/files

needless to say, when you add a drive to a mount point, than whatever was there originally would not be visible anymore. So if you have content to preserve, move it somewehere else for the time being and copy it to you new drive afterwards.

kees