Sharing directories across the LAN

[Njoku, George O.]

I would go with samba and my configuration for a group will be as
follows.....


1. Create a group e.g shares

2. create users = you and your wife

3. add you and wife to group = shares

4. smb.conf
	[snip]
		
		[Shares]
		  	comment = share directory 
			path = /home/shares	(create directory first)
			writable = yes
 			create mask = 0664      (allow rw to owner and
group)
		 	directory mask = 775  	(allow rwx to owner and
group)
			valid users %S		(only users in
/etc/passwd can have access)

	[snip]


5. use smbpasswd to create samba passwords for you and wife

6.  Map network drive (reconnect at restart/remember password)

7. place shortcut on desktop or wife 


Cheers
George

 

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Derek
Broughton
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:35 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Sharing directories across the LAN

This isn't strictly an Ubuntu question, but I'm having trouble deciding
the
best way to handle my problem.

I have a project on which my partner and I have to collaborate, and need
a
shared folder structure.

In an ideal world, I'd just create a subversion repository and we'd
check
files in or out as needed, but the partner in question is my wife, so I
can't just dictate terms :-)

The problem I'm running into is with making all files modifiable by both
users.  If the folder has the guid bit set, and we're both in the group,
then all files get created with the same group - so far so good.
However,
by default files are generally not created with group write permission,
and
I don't really want to change that globally.

Sharing with NFS doesn't seem helpful.  Sharing with Samba supposedly
lets
me specify "force user" and "force group", but I either don't understand
the use of these options, or they don't work :-)

Finally, I just set up a desktop shortcuts to sftp://user@host/.  It
works
well enough, since I'm using KDE, but there's got to be a better way.
Any
suggestions?
-- 
derek


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