Samba and Secondary drives

I have exsting data on a 2nd drive, about 100 gigs worth.

I have set up a samba server.

For some reason I can only successfully access shares on the primary drive, mounted as "/".

I mount the secondary drive as /data (formatted ext3). Despite permissions being EXACTLY the same for the top folder and all subfolders, frickin' windows will NOT access it.

Here is my FSTAB. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the physical drive and not the permissions.

I have chmod -R for "777" on shares both on the primary and secondary. However, whenever I change the path to the secondary drive, windows tells me "The path does not exist".

In other words I can only share data on the primary drive.

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/bkup /bkup ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/data /data ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /win vfat defaults 0 0
LABEL=ˆŠAežùeìC4CF swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

More than likely, the problem is not your filesystem, but rather with your Samba configuration. Can you post that section from smb.conf?

Thank you for your help.

Unfortunately, the computer is at work and I don't have the smb.conf file right now.

I have set up a share that has two identical folders, one on the primary drive, and the other on the secondary drive.

All I ever change is the path, all other parameters stay the same. When I point the path to the primary drive, windows will let me access it over the network.

When I change the path to the secondary drive, windows tells me the path does not exist.

If this doesn't help, I will post the smb.conf file in the morning.

Thanks again.

Please post the configuration when you get to work...

I'm afraid in trying different things, it may not be exactly the same as yesterday. Anyway, maybe it will give you some idea.

Right now, this is the smb.conf. In this one, I can browse the music directory, but no matter what I try, it will not let me write to it.

From the HOWTO on this site, it seems like ANYONE should be able to write to the [music] share. Both the /shares and /shares/music show to be 0777 in the properties box for that share.

By the way, I am using Fedora Core 4. Here is the smb.conf.

Thanks so much for your help.

# Global Parameters

[global]
netbios name = closet
server string = Closet file server
workgroup = jhome
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes


[homes]
read only = no
browseable = no
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775

[music]
path = /shares/music
comment = Shared folders
guest ok = yes
create mode = 0766
browseable = yes
public = yes
read only = no

did you ever solve this problem... i ask, because i have exactly the same problem :(


cheers


jack
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