Having problems with sharing HD

[GuyLev]

Hello everybody.
I'm a fedora newbie (moved from Ubuntu) so be patient .
1. I have a HD (FAT) installed on my computer.
I want this HD to automount and to be shared across the ethernet.
everytime that I've tried to do this I've failed for some reason.

thank you for your help.

[george_toolan]

You can mount the partition in /etc/fstab

fdisk -l

If you want to share the files you have to install or configure nfsd or Samba if you want to share with Windows.

[GuyLev]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

You can mount the partition in /etc/fstab

fdisk -l

If you want to share the files you have to install or configure nfsd or Samba if you want to share with Windows.

thank you for your help
I've ran fdisk and got an error

last_lba(): I don't know how to handle files with mode 40700

I already installed samba and configured the firewall but with no luck.

[george_toolan]

Is the filesystem mounted already?

If you have disks with the new GPT instead of old MBR partitions try to install gdisk

gdisk -l /dev/sda
gdisk -l /dev/sdb
gdisk -l /dev/sdc

until you find the disk that you want to share.

[GuyLev]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

Is the filesystem mounted already?

If you have disks with the new GPT instead of old MBR partitions try to install gdisk

gdisk -l /dev/sda
gdisk -l /dev/sdb
gdisk -l /dev/sdc

until you find the disk that you want to share.

Thank you for your reply (and apologize for my late reply. work takes all my time).
I've ran gdisk and came up with the following

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.4

Partition table scan:
  MBR: MBR only
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: not present


***************************************************************
Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format.
***************************************************************

Disk /dev/sdb: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): D00474FD-448C-4B94-A883-1334ADC80F4D
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 9581 sectors (4.7 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            8192      1543292927   735.9 GiB   0700  Microsoft basic data
   2      1543292928      1953523711   195.6 GiB   8300  Linux filesystem

I also ran ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid here are the results

total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root c1ff1fa-0562-4016-b154-08aeb9235095 -> ../../sdb2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root bbfdb0-e673-4a74-a0a7-0403f1d7fc26 -> ../../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root dd19908-9cba-47ff-bfea-8bf3d469ca20 -> ../../dm-2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 מאי 16 22:40 83892806-940d-4c5a-bba7-8106791bf474 -> ../../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  a7064b0f-6ee6-4a5f-ae9d-27a458470a34 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  EA7B-5E84 -> ../../sdb1

sdb1 is the one that I'm looking to share.
I've tried to automount it with fstab but I get a "fsck error code 8".
so I ran dosfsck /dev/sdb1 and now I get even more errors.

Thank you for your help.

[Gareth Jones]

Originally Posted by GuyLev

2. my fonts display are just horrible. I've tried messing around with the fonts but I can't get a proper font display.

It would have been better to put this in a separate post with it's own title. Do you mean the fonts in the graphical desktop? If so try Infinality (http://www.infinality.net/blog/) – it's a modification to the font rendering code and configuration that many of us are using to improve the fonts. There are a couple of threads on the forum about it, and information on the website about how to install it in Fedora.

I don't know about file sharing with Samba I'm afraid, last time I used it was 10 years ago and I can't remember much about it...

[GuyLev]

Originally Posted by Gareth Jones

It would have been better to put this in a separate post with it's own title. Do you mean the fonts in the graphical desktop? If so try Infinality (http://www.infinality.net/blog/) – it's a modification to the font rendering code and configuration that many of us are using to improve the fonts. There are a couple of threads on the forum about it, and information on the website about how to install it in Fedora.

I don't know about file sharing with Samba I'm afraid, last time I used it was 10 years ago and I can't remember much about it...

thank you for your comment.
I've edited the first post and removed the fonts problem.
I'm still having problems with sharing my folders
I've edited fstab and found out what I did wrong.
instead of fat as file system I've entered vfat and now its auto mounting.
However I can't write anything to the new hd. I have permissions only to read.
Plus when trying to access the folder via windows machine I am prompt to give username and password and it doesn't accept my username and password.

Thank you again.