Sharing a second disk

[Vegan]

On a server with a single disk /dev/sda is fine for a web server. If I add a disk, I expect it as /dev/sdb no problem.

So I am using SAMBA to share files with Windows clients. So how should I deploy the disk? I can make a symbolic link with ln, to a folder on the /dev/sda but I was wondering if SAMBA can make do without the symbolic link.

[windependence]

It's gonna see the second disk as whatever the volume name is. You can name the volume whatever you want.

-Tim

[Vegan]

So can SAMBA make do with a direct volume path?

[cariboo907]

This is waht the output of smbclient on my server looks like:

smbclient -L willy -U%
Domain=[APLUS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.3.2]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (willy server (Samba, Ubuntu))
images Disk mounted iso images
stuff Disk whatever fits
documents Disk documents and such
music Disk tunes
movies Disk Movies and TV
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
HPLaserjet Printer laser printer
Domain=[APLUS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.3.2]

Server Comment
--------- -------
RISKY Windows computer
WILLY willy server (Samba, Ubuntu)

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
APLUS WILLY

The shares are spread out over 4 different hard drives. The drives are all mounted via /etc/fstab, the shares use the mount points, not the device labels.

[Vegan]

Here are a couple of configs I have in my smb.conf

[web-site]
path = /var/www
writeable = yes
force create mode = 0777
force directory mode = 0777
force user = nobody
force group = nogroup
guest ok = yes

[mp3]
path = /music
writeable = yes
force create mode = 0777
force directory mode = 0777
force user = nobody
force group = nogroup
guest ok = yes

So I was suspecting I would need to ln more disks.

[windependence]

Not very secure. Why 777 permissions?

-Tim