Koozali.org: home of the SME Server

Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Cyrus Bharda on August 21, 2002, 07:15:40 AM

Title: Networked Drives
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on August 21, 2002, 07:15:40 AM

I would like to share a hard drive to be accessable over my LAN at home, so instead of having my D drive shared in my machine and slowing my computer down everytime it is accessed, why not whack it into my SME box and have it shared as \esmith\C on a windows network. So how do I accomplish that?

Thanks

Cyrus Bharda

Title: Re: Networked Drives
Post by: chris meredith on August 21, 2002, 08:44:28 AM

Short Version:
Stick the drive in, mount it to a directory, add an entry to fstab and setup the share in samba.

Long Version
Go search around the web and get yourself a few Howto's.  Start with ones on Mount, fstab, and Samba.

The actual mount command will depend on the filesystem you use on the drive and its position on the IDE/SCSI chain.  It will be something along the lines of:

mount -t fat32 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/otherdrive

Where 'fat32' is the filesystem '/dev/hdc1' is the drive (hdc1 is the Second Partition on the Master Drive on the second IDE channel) and '/mnt/otherdrive' is the directory you want to mount the drive to.

Go look at /etc/fstab for info on how to remount the drive on reboots.

For Samba you are best off reading the docs.  There is a lot of info in there, though there are plenty of examples around of what you want to do.

Mount Info:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/formating.html#MOUNTING

Samba Info:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html
http://samba.org/

Adding a Second Drive:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue38/cooper.html

Search around for some more docs.  There are lots out there.  Hope this helps get you started.

Title: Re: Networked Drives
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on August 21, 2002, 09:27:40 AM

Thnak you!!!!!

Title: Re: Networked Drives
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on August 22, 2002, 07:09:56 AM

so basically these are the names of the partitions right? :

/dev/hda0  = 1st partition on master on primary ide
/dev/hda1 = 2nd partition on master on primary ide
/dev/hdb0 = 1st partition on slave on primary ide
/dev/hdb1 = 2nd partition on slave on primary ide
/dev/hdc0 = 1st partition on master on secondary ide
/dev/hdc1 = 2nd partition on master on secondary ide
/dev/hdd0 = 1st partition on slave on secondary ide
/dev/hdd1 = 2nd partition on slave on secondary ide

right?