> <Qn> > i have users logging into samba from win98 clients, so that the f: > drive is their home directory on the linux box. how can the make this > f: shareable to their fellow win98 clients? (i looked at the docs > rather quickly, and couldn't find any solution.) > </Qn> > prashast suggested > I am assuming that your Samba is configured to use user login names to map > their F: to their home directories. This is done using Samba variables. > Let's say user akr has a home directory of /home/akr. This is > atomatically shared by Samba for the user akr when he logs in. Now > go and add a section in your Samba configuration for explicitly > sharing this /home/akr (or any other subdirectory) for others. This > way the same directory is shared for users as two separate > shares. You probably need to give the new share a different name > though because each share must be uniquely named. this works (kind of) since any pair/group of users who want to share files can send a request to sys admin who will then make an entry in smb.conf, etc etc. but the full flexibility of win9x user level share control is not available in samba less than 2.0.0. future versions of samba may have this support though. thanks anyway. -akr The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-delhi/
