Wanting to start on the right track

[docJ]

I will leave the defaults drivers alone, thanks for the infos...

I have 4 hdd in my pc, the first is all setup properly, so I need to take care of the 3 ''data'' drives.

1) I need to create mount points; In the Disk utility, after I clicked the Mount point button, the Disk Utility tells me Mount Point: Mounted at /media/b (and /media/c and /media/d for the 2 others drives)
Is this OK? What I mean is does it need another ''slash something'' before or after or can I leave it at that?

My next question might be about having those drives mount automatically (after a reboot), but for now I just want to make sure I grasp the mount point thing correctly...

[arpanaut]

This should help you with auto-mounting.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

[docJ]

Yes, very helpful indeed; I was able to auto mount using the mount point listed earlier.


After that, I truncated the Fstab from the url to see more subjects; my bookmarks are filling up like crazy!

Making progress thanks to lots of you, thanks for your patience

[docJ]

Moving right along, I changed owner of the data drives to myself using chown, I then shared them with gksudo nautilus.
I password protect with smbpasswd

When I test my acces from windows computer, it should ask for a password, but it doesn't, did I do something wrong?

[docJ]

I thought I would end this thread on a shinning bright note
One of the main reason I needed to build a new media server was the catastrophic performance of my D-Link NAS.
My home network could never read/write faster than 10MBps to/from it; in reality I was getting access speed much lower, sometimes under 1MBps... Dealing with multi-Tb of data was a test of patience to say the least.

I just sent an errant avi 700mb file from windows straight to Ubuntu (without passing thru my NAS) & could not beleive my eyes
TeraCopy showed me a speed close to 70MBps and the copy took like 5 or 6 seconds....
I almost cried....
Ubuntu Rocks !

[docJ]

I was looking at forum guidelines in regards to thread solved; When I click thread tools, I do not see any way to mark it as "Solved"
Maybe for lack of privileges as I have not enough post yet (?)

[CatKiller]

No, it's just a problem with the new theme. You can edit the first post to change the prefix for now.

[UrbanDictionary]

I found the resources posted by DuckHook to be helpful, and I own a netbook.