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Mounting your Samba shares locally is useful when you are using Greyhole, and want to write or in any way work with those files locally. Greyhole data should only be accessed through shares, so mounting those shares locally is an easy way to work with Greyhole data safely.
 
Mounting your Samba shares locally is useful when you are using Greyhole, and want to write or in any way work with those files locally. Greyhole data should only be accessed through shares, so mounting those shares locally is an easy way to work with Greyhole data safely.
  
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* Add each share you want to mount locally to your /etc/fstab, like this:
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* Install the mount_shares_locally initd script:
 
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  #smb#//127.0.0.1/<share_name> /mnt/samba/<share_name> cifs credentials=/home/<username>/.smb_credentials,uid=500,gid=100,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770,hard,_netdev 0 0
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  curl -o /etc/init.d/mount_shares_locally http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3022105/Amahi/mount_shares_locally
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chmod +x /etc/init.d/mount_shares_locally
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chkconfig --add mount_shares_locally
 
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You'll need to replace ''<share_name>'' with the actual share name.<br/>
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* Edit /etc/init.d/mount_shares_locally in a text editor, and replace ''your_username'' (on line 12) with your username.
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And ''<username>'' with your username. That user will own all the files in the mounted shares, though all users that are part of the ''users'' group (gid=100) will also be able to write in those mounted shares.
 
  
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* Create the ''/home/<username>/.smb_credentials'' file. This is a simple text file (use your favorite text editor).
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* Create the ''/home/<your_username>/.smb_credentials'' file. This is a simple text file (use your favorite text editor).
 
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* Manually create the /mnt/samba/<share_name> directory.
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To test your new mounts, you can execute '''service mount_shares_locally start'''<br/>
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You will find the mounted shares in ''/mnt/samba/*''<br/>
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'''service mount_shares_locally stop''' will unmount the local shares.<br/>
  
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* Finally, add the following lines in /etc/rc.local:
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Note: if you used /etc/rc.local and /etc/fstab to mount shares locally in the past, you can remove what you added in those files now. The above initd script replaces all this.
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# Mount own Samba shares locally
 
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/bin/sed -ie 's/#smb#//g' /etc/fstab
 
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/bin/mount -a
 
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/bin/sed -ie 's@//127.0.0.1@#smb#//127.0.0.1@g' /etc/fstab
 
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To test your new mounts, you can execute the commands you added in rc.local.<br/>
 
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rc.local is executed on boot, after all other services have been started.<br/>
 
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This is necessary because mounts found in fstab are mounted before the Samba service starts, so just having your shares in fstab is not enough. The commands added in rc.local will un-comment your share lines from fstab, then mount them all, then re-comment them again, so that when fstab is executed on boot, it doesn't give you errors about those shares not being available.
 

Revision as of 03:05, 20 December 2010

Mounting your Samba shares locally is useful when you are using Greyhole, and want to write or in any way work with those files locally. Greyhole data should only be accessed through shares, so mounting those shares locally is an easy way to work with Greyhole data safely.

  • Install the mount_shares_locally initd script:
curl -o /etc/init.d/mount_shares_locally http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3022105/Amahi/mount_shares_locally
chmod +x /etc/init.d/mount_shares_locally
chkconfig --add mount_shares_locally
  • Edit /etc/init.d/mount_shares_locally in a text editor, and replace your_username (on line 12) with your username.
  • Create the /home/<your_username>/.smb_credentials file. This is a simple text file (use your favorite text editor).
username=<your_username>
password=<your_password>
domain=HOME

To test your new mounts, you can execute service mount_shares_locally start
You will find the mounted shares in /mnt/samba/*
service mount_shares_locally stop will unmount the local shares.

Note: if you used /etc/rc.local and /etc/fstab to mount shares locally in the past, you can remove what you added in those files now. The above initd script replaces all this.

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