Topic: IBays

[Jeff Williams]

IBays and Domain server for Windows
============================

When I create an I-Bay I get three directories cg-bin, files, html.  When I place this i-bay as a share on the windows network I see the three directories.

What I would like is an option when creating an I-Bay that is called standard that gives the three directories cg-bin, files, html.  An option special shifts the samba share to the files directory so that users do not have to navigate through directories. and it looks like a normal windows share.

Regards

Jeff

[Michael Doerner]

I agree, I believe we need a "mappable" ibay as a share for Windows clients.

At most client sites, we usually need a few shares that we can map for the
Windows clients via "net use x: \server\sharename" in the netlogon scripts.
These might be a drive mapping for some standard software or a general
"application drive" \server\apps.
To fit into the existing ibay structure ( /files, /html, /cgi-bin) the share
name would either need to be defined on the /files subdirectory or this new
ibay-type would have to be an ibay without any subdirectory as far as I see.

Regards,
Michael Doerner

[Buddy]

I have ran into this issue on a machine I set up for a local server in my house, I just simply logged in via telnet to my E-Smith server and used "chmod 770" on the new ibay under "/home/e-smith/files/ibays/(apps in my case)"  then I logged into the directory and deleted the cgi-bin, files and html directories.   It seems to work just fine the security is based on the group assigned to the folder, you can modify the "chmod" command to fit your needs.

[Steve McClary]

I would also like to see such an option incorporated into the ibay concept. I am looking at settng up e-smith to make older machines usable as file servers, and the multiple subdirectories in the current ibays makes it hard to plug the e-smith servers in transparently.