SICK OF STUPID OWNERSHIP RULES!!

[Ozgur Gultekin]

I can successfully mount a shared folder on Windows from my fedora core
3 using LinNeighbourhood.  What would be the line to add to fstab in
order to share it automatically?

Regards
Özgür
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 17:23 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:

> Richard Crawford wrote:
> 
> >On Wednesday 20 April 2005 00:20, Kevin wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I am so sick of these stupid bloody ownership rules!
> >>
> >>All I want to do is share a FAT32 drive over the local
> >>network and allow anyone to read/write it!
> >>
> >>I don't care or want to know about GIDs and UIDs or
> >>any IDs, just put the thing out there for everyone.
> >>
> >>Man this is annoying.  And I don't have time to read
> >>through pages of stupid blood man pages either!
> >>
> >>HELP!
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >The price one pays for security and stability, though, is complexity.  You 
> >can't get away from it.  And man pages are your friends.  And so is 
> >http://www.samba.org.
> >
> >In my own setup, I have a directory full of music that both my wife and I have 
> >full access to.  The section in smb.conf looks like this:
> >
> >[our_music]
> >path = /path/to/music
> >force group = crawford
> >read only = No
> >create mask = 0777
> >directory mask = 0777
> >guest ok = Yes
> >browseable = Yes
> >
> >Mapping to this drive in Windows is a piece of cake.  Mounting it in Linux is 
> >a bit more complicated.  I have this line in my /etc/fstab file on my FC3 
> >laptop:
> >
> >//hagrid/path/to/music /home/richard/Music  smbfs  
> >uid=500,gid=504,fmask=777,password="xxxxxxxx" 0 0
> >
> >uid in this line is the uid of my account on Hagrid, and gid is the gid of the 
> >group "crawford".  These values can be found by examining /etc/passwd 
> >and /etc/group on the host computer.
> >
> >Of course, that's all assuming that the FAT32 filesystem you're trying to 
> >share lives on a Linux box.  If it lives on a Windows computer, then I have 
> >no idea.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Hi All,
> 
> Kev, I've been where you are now. best advice I can give, is, 1. man's 
> can sometimes be , well, too techy for a newb. Search for some tutorials 
> instead. 2ndly, mate, sometimes, it's best to just walk away for a few 
> hours/dys/weeks even, till you feel refreshed enuff to get stressed 
> again..hehe..seriously, though, it's good advice, even if I say so 
> myself. Also, there are great people in here who will help you. Good 
> luck. Cheers.
> 
> Mark Sargent.
> 
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