Topic: Serving network files via FTP?

[Nathan Short]

Hi,

I'm new to SME and relatively new to Unix OS's in general, but I have a rather basic question.  Lets say that one of my computers on my network has a RAID-5 array formatted as an NT partition.  (NT was the only OS that had drivers for this particular raid card)  Is there any way to mount this folder as a directory on the SME server and share it via FTP?  

Assuming that this is possible, is it in turn possible to set the permissions of the folder for LIST ONLY, READ ONLY, and READ/WRITE depending on account?  

(This needs to be accesible from the external network)  

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If this is not possible, I would not be adverse to just directing the FTP traffic to the internal address of the machine with the raid array, but from what I understand, it is not as simple as forwarding ports.  And SME doesn't appear to support it without it having an external connection as well.  Any thoughts?

[Bill Talcott]

You can share the NT directory, and mount it as a drive in the SME. It was covered here before, though I don't know the exact process. Once it's mounted on the SME, you should be able to do anything to it that you would with any other directory, I would think.

[Nathan Short]

Thank you for your reply.  From what I understand, SMB is able to do what you are talking about, but with my limited knowledge of SME, I do not understand exactly how to accomplish this.  Also, the nature of FTP in a Unix environment is to give each user account on the server their own directory, correct?  Could I append all these users to a single group, give the group a common directory, and mount the NT share within it?  Calling all gurus!