Shared directory/folder - How ?

[mha]

Hi all,
I want to create a shared directory on my FC3 machine, to be used by windows users and also by embeded Linux system. What is the easiet and best way to do so ? It is ok to have 2 directories, one for windows and the other for linux users.


Thanks,
mha

[AndyGreen]

Samba / CIFS is a good universal way to share a directory. Windows users can see this as a "shared folder" and hook up to it with \\your-server-ip\sharename.

yum install samba system-config-samba
chkconfig samba on
service samba start

Also:

iptables -I INPUT -ptcp --dport 137:139 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -pudp --dport 137:139 -j ACCEPT

run these two commands as root, and also add them to /etc/rc.local so they will be active on future reboots. These tell the firewall to let other guys in on the Samba ports.

Then run

service-samba-config

and set up which directory to share according to this easy GUI app.

[jim]

create a folder in the home directory nam

as root mkdir /home/sharred
chmod 777 /home/sharred <----everyone has rights now
Plus it insn't in your home dir so others won't be able to navigate to your folder

[mha]

What file system is suitable ? FAT or native linux ?

mha

[AndyGreen]

Any filesystem is suitable for Samba, but you will have a happier time in Linux if it is ext3.