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Author:  mattbatt [ Sat Nov 24, 2012 12:16 am ]
Post subject:  expanding samba

So if you are like me and have multiple hard drives in your system and a windows computer on your network, you may want to access more than just the /home and /myth folder on your myth box.
Code:
 sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf.media

You will see this
Code:
[myth]
path = /myth
public = yes
only guest = yes
writeable  = yes
printable = no
force user = mythtv
force group = mythtv
create mask = 0755


I just ccopied everything like so
Code:
[myth]
path = /myth
public = yes
only guest = yes
writeable  = yes
printable = no
force user = mythtv
force group = mythtv
create mask = 0755

[myth0]
path = /myth0
public = yes
only guest = yes
writeable = yes
printable = no
force user = mythtv
force group = mythtv
force mask = 0755


Save it and you don't even need to restart Samba!!

voila I now have easy access to my other drive.

Author:  jams [ Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:43 am ]
Post subject:  Re: expanding samba

Excellent tip.
I would like to point out that smb.media.conf will be overwritten everytime that the advanced module is run. Edit /etc/mythvantage.cfg to disable the advanced module.

Also it's worth mentioning that this shortcoming has been addressed in R8. By default it will share every drive that was added via add_storage.py , one less thing to tweak!

Author:  mattbatt [ Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: expanding samba

except that add_storage.py wipes whatever drive you add!!! but yes good to know that it might revert.

Author:  mattbatt [ Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: expanding samba

Apparently the update I did recently reverted this file I'm glad I documented it here.

Author:  RacerX [ Sat May 11, 2013 4:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: expanding samba

Excellent Post

For those of you that are tired of having to manually kick off samba you can always just make it start automatically courtesy of Jams

as root

Code:
add_service.sh smbd
add_service.sh nmbd


if you need to restart the service then use courtesty of brfransen

Code:
sudo sv restart smbd

Author:  spideyk21 [ Mon May 13, 2013 8:10 am ]
Post subject:  Re: expanding samba

mattbatt wrote:
except that add_storage.py wipes whatever drive you add!!! but yes good to know that it might revert.


Correct, but
Code:
add_storage.py --no_destruction
does not. See "Adding Additional Drives" under the Upgrading LinHES R7.X to R8 Wiki page.

Author:  mattbatt [ Mon May 13, 2013 6:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: expanding samba

Good to know.

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