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Title: NTFS I-Bay
Post by: del on December 06, 2011, 09:03:34 PM

Hi Everyone,

I have suceesfully added and mounted a NTFS disk drive, I can see the files in Winscp, what I would like to do now is point an I-bay to this drive, can anyone point me in the right direction? If it is not possible to use an I-bay is there another way to share drives in SME? I am running SME8 Beta6 with SARK PBX, no other contribs are installed. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Del

Title: Re: NTFS I-Bay
Post by: kb-ohnemus on December 06, 2011, 11:08:03 PM

You could create a new ibay, remove the ibay's files directory and link the ntfs- drive there:

ln -s /mnt/ntfs /home/e-smith/files/ibays/newone/files

or directly mount the ntfs- drive there.

Don't know what happens if you touch the ibay in server-manager afterwards..

Title: Re: NTFS I-Bay
Post by: mmccarn on December 07, 2011, 02:59:11 AM

I've tested this with USB disks, while writing up these instructions: http://wiki.contribs.org/USBDisks#The_Solution

I've also tested 'symlinking' from an i-bay over to a disk system mounted elsewhere, pretty much as described here:
http://wiki.contribs.org/AddExtraHardDisk#Alternative_3:_Mounting_and_Symlinking

I seem to remember that I could not 'symlink' the ibay 'html' folder, but I had no problem symlinking sub-folders.

Of course, if you decide to symlink you'll need to enable 'followsymlinks':
http://wiki.contribs.org/DB_Variables_Configuration#Apache_server_ibay_specific_.28httpd-e-smith.29

Title: Re: NTFS I-Bay
Post by: johnp on December 07, 2011, 04:45:10 AM

I followed the instructions in webshare to symlink my disc for data and also use it as a music store for jinzora. It's kind of strange but works pretty cool from samba etal

Title: Re: NTFS I-Bay
Post by: del on December 08, 2011, 08:12:02 AM

Quote from: mmccarn on December 07, 2011, 02:59:11 AM

I've tested this with USB disks, while writing up these instructions: http://wiki.contribs.org/USBDisks#The_Solution

I've also tested 'symlinking' from an i-bay over to a disk system mounted elsewhere, pretty much as described here:
http://wiki.contribs.org/AddExtraHardDisk#Alternative_3:_Mounting_and_Symlinking

I seem to remember that I could not 'symlink' the ibay 'html' folder, but I had no problem symlinking sub-folders.

Of course, if you decide to symlink you'll need to enable 'followsymlinks':
http://wiki.contribs.org/DB_Variables_Configuration#Apache_server_ibay_specific_.28httpd-e-smith.29

Followed these instructions and everything works as expected, thank you.

Del