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 Post subject: expanding samba
PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 12:16 am 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: expanding samba
PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:43 am 
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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!


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 Post subject: Re: expanding samba
PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:59 pm 
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except that add_storage.py wipes whatever drive you add!!! but yes good to know that it might revert.

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 Post subject: Re: expanding samba
PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:02 am 
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Apparently the update I did recently reverted this file I'm glad I documented it here.

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 Post subject: Re: expanding samba
PostPosted: Sat May 11, 2013 4:47 pm 
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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


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 Post subject: Re: expanding samba
PostPosted: Mon May 13, 2013 8:10 am 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: expanding samba
PostPosted: Mon May 13, 2013 6:29 pm 
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Good to know.

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