SAMBA Question/problem

**tl1moss** · 12-06-2003, 04:41 PM

Hi, got a q./problem

using Samba to share my convieniently placed knoppix laptop, I can browse the root directory and such... but... what i navigate to /mnt/hda1, it always comes up blank..... containing nothing..... any ideas on why that is?

Thank ya'll'z

**jfitie** · 12-06-2003, 06:06 PM

You probably did not mount the device.

**tl1moss** · 12-09-2003, 12:46 AM

as far as i can tell, it's mounted... (im accessing from a WinXP machine.... and the hd's mounted on the knoppix laptop)

**L2Cache** · 12-09-2003, 02:16 AM

This page explains samba in redhat 9, starting at the network file sharing topic, and might help: http://www.cclug.org/wiki/Main/HomeDesktop

**zowley** · 12-28-2003, 02:58 PM

try mount hard drives again...

**zowley** · 12-28-2003, 02:59 PM

try reconfigure file /etc/samba/smb.conf on the bottom you must have something like this:

[hda1]
comment = /mnt/hda1
browseable = yes
path = /mnt/hda1
writeable = yes
preexec = /bin/mount /mnt/hda1
postexec = /bin/umount /mnt/hda1

When you do that, you can restart samba, just type in root terminal: /etc/init.d/samba restart ,
after that open my workgroup compters on win xp comp.