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Fri May 12 2006, 07:15AM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
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Look down, I got it working the way I wanted it

Turned out to be quite a task...

Ok, so I converted my desktop to ubuntu a while ago... All seems ok, but for the fact that I cant convince it to let me (as opposed to root) do anything with the second hard drive in the box

I have a 95gb partition which is currently mounted as /data2 (/data1 is a partition on the first hard drive, which has teh same 'problem'). The drive is located at /dev/hdb2, and right now I have the line

<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hdb2      /data2           vfat     users      0          0

in the /etc/fstab folder. Yes I did the mount -a after making changes.
But the drive still shows up as root under properties and they only way for me to do anything with it is to use sudo...
I tried mounting it in my /home/peter directory, tried mounting it manually, etc but it just wont give in.

How the hell do you guys make a shared directory?

Dave Marshall

Fri May 12 2006, 12:06PM

Registered Member #16 Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 02:22PM
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Well, if you want to mount manually every time you reboot, its:

umount /dev/{devicehere}
mount -t vfat -o {yourusernamehere} /dev/{devicehere} /{whatever directory you mount it to}

Minus all the brackets of course.

That will allow whichever user name you enter to utilize the drive. If you want it set so it mounts it automatically when you reboot, you'll have to edit a configuration file. I'm not positive how to do that one, as I've never run into it.

Dave

joshua_

Fri May 12 2006, 07:36PM

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Dave Marshall wrote ...

umount /dev/{devicehere}
mount -t vfat -o {yourusernamehere} /dev/{devicehere} /{whatever directory you mount it to}

Not quite... -o uid={yourusernamehere}

For reference, an entry in my fstab for my digital camera looks like this:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/image vfat user,uid=1000 0 0

I wasn't sure whether uid would resolve a name, so I just decided to use my numeric uid (find it with "id -u").

joshua

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Sat May 13 2006, 06:50AM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
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hmm, this is going somewhere...

I added the uid=1000 in the fstab file, and now I can get to the drive

Unfortunately it is still stuck at 755 access; so no one else can

To get it to go to 777 I have tried
sudo chmod 777 /data2
and making a directory inside of the drive and trying to change its permissions... but no luck. It doesn't give any error message, but it stays 755.

So what gives?
Thanks!

---Edit:---
I found that if I use umask=0000 then I get full access to them

Ok, so here is the last problem....
How do I make a folder appear in more than on place?

I am setting up this harddrive with all of my songs/homework/other files which will go on a small intranet ftp server. I have it set up so each account has its own home directory at /data1/ftp/[user name], which is working great. But now I want to share the larger drive (/data2) in each of the home directories of the users, so it would be like
/data1/ftp/mom/data2
/data1/ftp/dad/data2
such that each user could have the /[user name] to put personal files, and have the shared ones in the /data2 drive (or directory on the drive)

It was so easy with slimftp, why cant proftp be the same

If there isn't some easy way to mount the drive in multiple places I am going to find a better ftp sever that is completely virtual; none of this requiring the ftp users/directories to have real accounts/directories on the server

Steve Conner

Sat May 13 2006, 03:36PM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
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If you want the one drive to appear in several places, maybe symlinks will work. Same idea as shortcuts in Windows or aliases on the Mac.

Hellmark

Sat May 13 2006, 10:06PM

Registered Member #189 Joined: Thu Feb 16 2006, 07:43PM
Location: Winfield, Missouri, USA
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yeah symlinks will work, but only for direct access of the machine. If you do a network mount via samba or something, symlinks will not work, because the computer with it mounted will see the symlink and think it means on itself, rather than on the machine that actually has the share. FTP will work though, with most servers (also, sometimes, like if you have the ftp access to show that account's default directory as root for them they won't be able to access anything outside of it even via symlink.)

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Sun May 14 2006, 06:59AM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
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Ok, I am very close...

The symlinks didn't work because I was making an inter-block-device link. But
mount --bind /data/secondary/ftp /data/primary/FTP-shared/mike/data
(I changed the names of the drives around so I could remember what was going on, /data/secondary is the drive that has the files on it and /data/primary is the drive that the folder referring to the drive is on.

In an attempt to make if go on its own I tried adding...
/data/secondary/ftp /data/primary/FTP-shared/mike/data vfat umask=0000 0 0
to fstab but I get an error that it is not a block device

I also tried adding
/dev/hdb2 /data/primary/FTP-shared/mike/data vfat umask=0000 0 0
but that didn't work either.

So how would I make ubuntu do the mount on its own?

Thanks!

Hellmark

Sun May 14 2006, 11:31PM

Registered Member #189 Joined: Thu Feb 16 2006, 07:43PM
Location: Winfield, Missouri, USA
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Yeah, for unmounted drives, you have to use a different setup, and generally not doable over ftp

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Mon May 15 2006, 01:50AM

Registered Member #56 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
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I made it work with the
mount --bind /data/secondary/ftp /data/primary/FTP-shared/mike/data
command, but I don't want to tye that 5 times each time reboot

There has to be like an autoexec.bat for linux?

Steve Conner

Mon May 15 2006, 10:18AM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
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Yea, I think it's called .login or suchlike.

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