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#1 - userland mounted external hard drives (/media) are not really
suitable for using with samba. Samba expects a root mount. Put your
entry into /etc/fstab for this external drive, mount it and leave it
alone. To get ACL's, I think you are going to need a file system that
supports extended attributes (and of course use them in /etc/fstab)
which tends to leave out the typical FAT/VFAT filesystems used in many
external hard drives.
NFS can do this as it emulates NTFS (or any other filesystem it
supports). Generally, if you are NFS'ing
an NTFS FS, then there are no worries. vfat (fat32) and fat aren't
usually supported as extended
attributes aren't supported. ext2, ext3, reiserfs, and most others
(including HPFS+) are supported
and work very well.
#2 - you can create samba users/groups but they should either be the
same as system users/groups or you have to specifically map them. Note
that samba users have to have a password too.
complicated :). NFS might be a better choice. if you are using windows
as a client, you can
get Services for Unix (SFU) freely available from Microsoft. NFS is
fully supported under
OS X, linux, and UNIX. As far as I know, windows needs an add-on
(plug-in) to support it.
#3 - You should probably set group permissions and even use group sticky
bits on subdirectories.
should be SOP (at least it was for me)
Craig
TMH
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