"Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I was wondering how I could properly set up a /pub directory that could be
> accessible to my roommate's Win95 computers over a LAN. I briefly
> experimented with a SUSE installation on my old 486 system with the /pub
> directory burned into a cd and Samba accessing the cdrom drive. This worked
> out OK but it was pain to get working. I'm now waiting for a new Pentium
> motherboard and hard drive before I set up a permanent file server
> installation.
>
> I think this is how a /pub directory should be set up (again, I'm not sure):
>
> 1. Create a pub user account that automatically creates a /home/pub
> directory.
>
> 2. Enable the subdirectories in pub to be world read-only but keep the
> various "." files in the pub directory private to the pub user account.
>
> 3. Set up the appropriate read-only permissions in Samba to have the
> directory accessible as /fileserver/pub to the network.
>
> Am I missing anything here or is there better way to set up the pub
> directory?
>
> Christopher Reimer
>
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This seems like alot more work than it should be. If you have Samba setup
already, you can just login with the remote computer using some username and
password. Doesn't have to be pub. For instance, I have this .BAT file on my
Windows 95 desktop.
net use h: //Precious/Taveren
Where Precious is the name of the Linux box running Samba, and Taveren is the
user. When run it asks me for the password and then maps the /home/Taveren
directory to h:. And since a directory was mapped to a drive letter as the
root of it, I can't go up any directories. I only have access to the
/home/Taveren directory. Hope this gives you a little to think about.
--
Ren West
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