xman111 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 Hey guys, great forum.. i did some searching but am still a little confused about user shares/disk shares. I have 3 disks and a parity disk. How can i put a keep directory on one of the disks so that my data would be safe but so nobody on the network can browse it? Every time i put a keep directory in \\tower\disk1 it shows up in the browser as i guess a user share. Any help would be appreciated. Craig Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 Today, on version 4.1 and earlier you cannot hide a directory/user share using the web-interface. As you discovered, all are created with exactly the same permissions. From what I understand, the feature you are looking for should be added with the security release expected (hopefully) in version 4.2. Today, best you could do is hand-edit /etc/samba/smb.shares to delete the unwanted share, or add a "browesable=no" to it so it is hidden, but accessible on the network, and then at the telnet login command line do a samba stop followed by samba start This will work until you re-scan the shares. (It re-creates the smb.shares and will undo your editing) Same with a stop/start of the array or reboot of the server... they too will re-create the smb.shares file and undo your editing. Quote Link to comment
xman111 Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 Joe, thanks for the response. would it be too much to ask to go into a little more detail on how to edit that file and can it be done from my machine or just from the server? also, now that i have you here, i want to thank you for all your well written replies to everyone, i have learned more from your posts than anyone's. thanks again, Craig Quote Link to comment
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