JustinBKay.org

I have an Xserve at work that I bought with a terabyte drive so that I could share files to Windows XP Pro sp2 users. I have had a lot of issues when trying to serve home drives to people (I also have some public shares that seem to work ok). This would be a user specific share for their work files. The permissions should be read/write for the specified user and nothing for anyone else. We get a lot of errors about not being able to find the network path and the path already being used. I'd had it, and so I decided to try something pretty extreme.

The setup that I'm now testing is publishing the share over nfs to a linux box and then using samba to share it to the windows clients. I've set the nfs server to map all uids to nobody and the nfs is only mountable on the linux server that shares it out over smb. So far so good.

Here is the samba share configuration, the nfs is mounted to /home/jkay_h

[jkay_h]
        path = /home/jkay_h
        hide dot files = yes
        writable = yes
        printable = no
        guest ok = no
        valid users = jkay
        force group = hdrives
        directory mode = 770
        create mode = 770