Storage and file sharing

Your HDA shares files as \\hda.

Note that you have to input \\hda in the file browser or other places where files are requested, not in the Internet browser. This is w hat you should see when using the default settings and there are two users in the system:

Default Shares

By default your HDA comes with the following shares preinstalled: pictures, music, movies, files and books, in addition to one share per user "home directory" and a printers and faxes directory. To add more shares, go to the setup area in your HDA.

User Permissions

User and share administration is performed for the time being directly through the Samba Server Configuration panel.

To get there, you have to be at the desktop (either directly or through VNC), and go to System -> Administration -> Samba. Note that is may be under System -> Administration -> Server Settings -> Samba, if you have more server services installed.

Here is what it looks like in my case.

You can then configure your shares directly and configure the samba users

Tips:

- Samba users are separate from Linux users (System -> Administration -> Users and Groups)
- However, each samba user must be mapped into a Linux user
- Standard Linux permissions apply to samba users, except that samba can restrict for read-only and/or visibility of a share.
- You may have to create user groups under  Linux to manage shared spaces.