Subj : Re: Configuring SMB shares on Linux
To   : comp.os.linux
From : robertharvey
Date : Wed Jul 21 2004 05:53 pm

swift@TheWorld.com (Peter Lu) wrote in message news:<cdic4s$lnv$1@pcls4.std.com>...
> How does one configure Linux Ext2/3 directories as shares for the
> SMD server?  Hopefully, it won't involve manually editing some
> configuration file or restarting smbd.  

You just list them in smb.conf
http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ will
help.

I don't see why you want to avoid editing configs, but there are
alternatives.  On SUSE the YAST tool has a gui for setting them up. 
There is a web interface called SWAT - just browse to port 901 on the
host.

You can restart smbd without disturbing existing users out there.
killall -sighup smbd

>On WinXX, this is very easy.
True.  You can open a command window and type NET SHARE
jock=d:\export\jock /USERS:2 /REMARK:"shared pool"

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