Re: [Nolug] fstabify

Thanks Brad,

you're correct sir. I am sharing files on two drives from my "server" to a
group of dose clients.

Samba is already set up and working. The problem is if the server loses and
regains power (unfortunately a problem that recurs almost weekly) I am the
only person who is remotely familiar with the server. Try as I might none
of my coworkers can get past their fear of learning to see that mounting
these drives is a piece of cake. So, I'm trying to mount the drives with
the fstab, but...the fstab file I created was kicking users in the teeth
when they tried to access the files.

I think I found the solution though. my fmask and dmask are denying access
to anyone but root. I've modified that and will give it another try this
afternoon.

Clint.

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Brad Bendily <bendily@gmail.com> wrote:

> Clint,
> Can you help me to better understand what you're trying to do?
>
> As best as I can tell, you have two drives connected locally to your
> ubuntu server,
> then you want Windows workstations to read/write to those drives?
> Usually this kind of thing isn't done from fstab.
>
> You would setup fstab to mount the drives on boot.
>
> Then use samba to share them to your network. With samba you can setup
> the read/write permissions.
>
> bb
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Clint Billedeaux <clint@fastbadge.com>
> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> > I'm trying to setup my Ubuntu server to mount a couple internal hard
> drives
> > automatically.
> > Old fstab looks like this:
> > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> > proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
> > /dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
> > # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
> > UUID=24c4b6f6-44ae-4159-8ff5-c812e016f6c5 none swap sw
> > 0 0
> > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0
> 0
> >
> >
> > This configuration allows all my networked clients to read/write once I
> > mount the shared HDDs.
> >
> > I modified it this way:
> >
> >
> > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> > proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
> > /dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
> > # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
> > UUID=24c4b6f6-44ae-4159-8ff5-c812e016f6c5 none swap sw
> > 0 0
> > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
> > /dev/sdc1 /media/fastbadge ntfs-3g rw,auto,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0
> > /dev/sdb1 /media/Macriums ntfs-3g rw,auto,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0
> >
> >
> > The problem is even though the disks are mounted and all of the clients
> on
> > the network can see them,
> > none can access them. Anyone want to offer a hint at what I'm missing?
> > Thanks,
> > Clint
>
>
>
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