Re: Sharing complete HD?

Daniel James wrote:

In article news:<lWk9i.4949$sM1.4181@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Whelan
wrote:
One of my retirement goals was to try to find a distro that would let me
do everything I wanted, but without having to use a shell. I'm more than
capable of getting to grips with things at that level, but it's not how I
want to spend my time. I just wanted a quick and dirty fix. This is the
first thing that has defeated me!

The shell is often easier than a GUI once you know what you're doing.

The following assumes that you are NOT logged on as root.

Depending on how exactly your KDE menus are set up, you probably have an
entry called "File Manager - Super User Mode" (look under "More
Applications" on the "System" menu). Click that, enter your root password,
and you will have a copy of Konqueror running with root permissions.
right-click the directory that is the target of your samba share, and
select "Properties".

There is a "Permissions" tab on the properties dialog that will allow you
to set access rights on the directory. The equivalent of the "chmod a+rwx"
command recommended by Ian Rawlings is to set the permission for "others"
to "Can View and Modify Content" (it's probably "Can View Content" at the
moment, which may be your problem).

Thanks for your help. I can follow your instructions as above perfectly, but
when I OK out of the Properties dialogue, then go back in and look at
Permissions, "Others" has changed back to "Can View Content". (I am
definitely in Konqueror as root.)

I am sure this is the heart of the problem. I can change permissions either
using the method you have described, or from a shell (using chmod 777) on
files that are on hda1, but not those on hdb1.

I am sure I'm missing the blindingly obvious!

Chris

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