Tag: samba

Adding a recycle bin to a samba share

People are stupid and remove things accidentally. You can partly mitigate that by adding recycle bin functionality to a samba share. Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 months ago, on November 23, 2009, at 16:11 | No comments

Permissions on a samba share

When you mount a samba share without unix extensions enabled, you can set a GID, UID and permissions (on the client machine, at mount time) so you can adjust it to let non-root users use it. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 months ago, on October 20, 2009, at 13:10 | No comments

Samba rounds filesizes off to whole MB’s

I noticed when I did 'du -hs' on a sambamount, I got a disk usage that was unrealistically high. I did some research, and it appears that Samba rounds off file sizes to whole MB units, to optimize for windows clients: Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 months ago, on October 20, 2009, at 12:10 | No comments

smbmnt user needs to own the mountpoint if you want to mount rw

I just found out that it's impossible on my system to mount /mnt/smb-docs as user bigsmoke, even with the following fstab: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on February 03, 2009, at 21:02 | No comments

Setting up a domaincontroller with Samba

I occasionally have to set up a domain controller using Samba. There are a lot of guides and howto's available, but I made a step-by-step howto just for myself, and I thought it'd be smart to make it available on the internet for me to access anywhere. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on July 10, 2008, at 12:07 | 5 comments