Re: sharing whole drives

As long as the disks are actually mounted at those mountpoints, and
contain a filesystem that your Linux installation understands, then
thats all that is required (along with a correct samba configuration
of course).

What do you mean by "refuses to let me share it"? What errors do you get?

Also, I have had awkward experiences sharing via "Sharing Options" in
Nautilus (if this is how you're doing it), in my opinion the best way
to do it is through using the correct settings in /etc/samba/smb.conf

Also note that Ubuntu doesnt mount your extra harddisks until you try
and access them via Nautilus, so unless you have modified your
/etc/fstab accordingly, everytime you restart your computer your
shares will be unavailable.

Erin

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:06 PM, chris morris <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Just installed Ubuntu 10.10 (very nice) but, as usual, some issues to be
> sorted.
>
> I have two 1TB storage drives which need to be shared via samba. (
> /media/disk and /media/disk-1 )
> disk-1 I am able to share no problem, the other refuses to let me share it.
>
> I suspect this is because /media/disk is actually sda1, and linux thinks
> that designation might be a system drive ( it isn't )
>
> Any easy way around this?
>
> Chris
>
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