File Sharing

[binarydumb]

Hello all.

Okay, I just installed Mandrake 10.1 on my server PC. There are 3 computers hooked up to a 4-port KVM in my room. Theye are configured as follows:

#1 Desktop PC: Windows XP Pro - main production machine
#2 Desktop PC: Linux Mandrake 10.1 mainly to run as a files server and web/mysql testbed
#3 Laptop: Mandrake 10.1
#4 Future Desktop PC: Planned for Win2k Pro

Okay here is the objective and my present dilema, the primary use for the desktop Mandrake 10.1 is a file server/repository for all my work and designs. What I wanted was a shared folder on this PC that ONLY I can access through user/password login within my LAN. Currently I can only open this folder from my WinXP Pro PC if I set the all user/groups/anyone to be able to view and modify files. This is NOT what I want. Basically I want this shered folder secured and accessible only by the right user/password combo.

How do I set this up? I tried using userdrake and setting the user on the linux desktop as part of the fileshare group. I checked settings so that only the owner has view/modify permissions. But when I do that on the Linux PC I cannot open the folder from my WinXP PC.

I am guessing that it is just a few settings/configuration that I am missing here. Was reading from the manuals I downloaded from Mandrake and still the answer eludes me. Maybe I am just tired and just not seeing the solution.

Any suggestions?

Thank you all in advance.

Tony
:ohah: :x:

 

[Anti-Trend]

Well, I'm not sure exactly how you're file sharing, though I assume you've got some kind of Samba server going if your windows boxes can talk to it. On a Samba server, there are two different sets of permissions: the Samba set, and the Unix set. Make sure that both sets agree on the privileges you want to establish. I can give you further instructions on SMB and/or Unix permissions, should you need them.

Also, I think it's fair to mention that the best way to share files in Linux is certainly not Samba, since that means that several translations have to take place on both ends of the transaction just to for a file to change hands:

Linux==>Samba ==>Samba==>Linux

Linux filesharing is usually handled by NFS (network filesystem), which would look more like this:

Linux==>Linux

Much faster and easier on the resources of both client and server. Luckily, NFS and SMB shares can easily co-exist on the same machine. That's the ideal way to set up a server for a mixed Unix/Windows network. :)

-AT

 

[binarydumb]

What my objective is to learn php/mysql and test it cross platform on xp/2k/linux systems. The main machine I shall be working on is XP though. Because I am more familiar with it and that I use dreamweaver mx 2004 as well. But after I have created the files, etc. - I want to send them to the Linux PC (desktop) and have them server through the apache/mysql server.

On the Linux PC I setup Mandrake with the NFS and Samba server (along with Apache). Being multi platform I followed the manual and set both nsf and smb. I understood that it was the best way to do it. But I also want to secure the files from everyone else. Often I will have colleagues come over to my place and help co-develop the application I am making. I don't want anyone but me accessing those files.

I could not find SWAT on Mandrake so I used the configure my pc option and have the file sharing optioned turned on. I also set filesharing with both smb and nfs as well. The difficulty I am having is accessing the secured folder. If I turn permissions for everyone, I can see and write to it, but cannot when the permissions are set only to the owner.

Maybe I am going about it incorrectly, I do not know. I cannot see a gui application/process to handle the samba server side. Is there one?

Any help will always be appreciated.

Thanks. Just frustrtated.

Tony