access usb hdd from network

[M_JaGuar]

hi ..

i have a wd hard disk and i want to be able to access the files and videos in it from other computer (both computers are ubuntu) and every time i try to watch a video i get a message say
" you might not have permission to open the file "

and i tryd this in the terminal :
( sudo chmod 755 -R /media/"My Book" )
( sudo chmod a+rw -R /media/"My Book" )

i dont know what to do

[utnubuuser]

Have you tried going through the right-click>>sharing options? Select the disk icon, right-click on it, and check out "sharing".

[M_JaGuar]

yes i already shared it and i can access it and copy files from one computer to another but i cant watch the videos from
the hard disk without copy it to my other computer

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i forgot to tell you that the hard disk is fat format not ntfs




.

[sr20ve]

I would setup your USB drive mount point as an NFS share.

This site has a good walkthrough on NFS:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/nfs-server...in-ubuntu.html

[sr20ve]

Have you tried going through the right-click>>sharing options? Select the disk icon, right-click on it, and check out "sharing".

I believe this method only lets you share it as samba, which is not optimal for a linux to linux share.

[M_JaGuar]

thanks all for reply

ok i give it a shoot in nfs

and it works fine for my home folder but for my usb hdd it dosnt work
i try to change the permission to 755 and it works until i restart both computers after that it didnt work for my usb hdd

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and for the fstab file i dont know how to configure it
so i still have to mount it manule my self from the terminal
every time

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any ideas

[sr20ve]

edit the /etc/fstab so you don't have to manually mount it from the terminal each time.

you should add a line that looks similar to this:

myfileserver:/media/disk /data nfs defaults 0 0

You can also replace the hostname (myfileserver) with the ip address.

You can then test your fstab by running:

#sudo mount -a

[M_JaGuar]

this is my fstab file :

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=6d9cc3dd-bba9-44f0-ad9c-cc3691721a37 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=a0b10799-8054-4470-8db2-ab640204cf43 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

192.168.1.107:/media/"My Book" /home/bo7amny/ubuntu-pc/mybook nfs nfs defaults 0 0
192.168.1.107:/home/bo7amny /home/bo7amny/ubuntu-pc/home nfs defaults 0 0

my home folder works fine

but the "my book" not working and i think it about permission

[sr20ve]

this is my fstab file :
192.168.1.107:/media/"My Book" /home/bo7amny/ubuntu-pc/mybook nfs nfs defaults 0 0

Is that a typo? You have nfs listed twice.

Could you also post your /etc/exports, and the command you're running to mount it manually?

[M_JaGuar]

ok this is the exports file :

# /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported
# to NFS clients. See exports(5).
#
# Example for NFSv2 and NFSv3:
# /srv/homes hostname1(rw,sync) hostname2(ro,sync)
#
# Example for NFSv4:
# /srv/nfs4 gss/krb5i(rw,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt)
# /srv/nfs4/homes gss/krb5i(rw,sync)
#
/media/"My Book" 192.168.1.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,async)
/home/bo7amny 192.168.1.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,async)

this is fstab file :

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=6d9cc3dd-bba9-44f0-ad9c-cc3691721a37 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=a0b10799-8054-4470-8db2-ab640204cf43 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0


#192.168.1.107:/media/"My Book" /home/bo7amny/ubuntu-pc/mybook nfs defaults 0 0
192.168.1.107:/home/bo7amny /home/bo7amny/ubuntu-pc/home nfs defaults 0 0
192.168.1.107:/media/"My Book" /home/bo7amny/ubuntu-pc/mybook nfs defaults 0 0

the command to mount the hdd :

sudo mount 192.168.1.107:/media/"My Book" ~/ubuntu-pc/mybook

and i must give the hdd the 755 permission every time before i run this command

and the out but of ( sudo mount -a ) is :

[mntent]: line 14 in /etc/fstab is bad

i dont know what wrong with this line i think it the name of the hdd ("My Book")
but i dont know how to change it

by the way thank you