Re: sharing whole drives

  Sorted:
No error messages but Nautilus would just crash/exit when sharing was ok'd
For some reason it does not show the 'sharing hand' on the icon, but the 
disk IS actually shared..(tested from another pc)
Yes had to put the drives into fstab  to get Ubuntu to auto-mount them.
This does present its own (permissions?) issues tho. If I don't sudo 
umount them before rebooting they will fail to re-mount after the 
rebooting. Dont ask me why...

chris.





On 13/10/10 16:06, Erin Drummond wrote:
> 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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