1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
|
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="diskdrake--fileshare">
<info>
<title xml:id="diskdrake--fileshare-ti1">Share your hard disk
partitions</title>
<subtitle>diskdrake --fileshare</subtitle>
</info>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="diskdrake--fileshare.png" revision="1" xml:id="diskdrake--fileshare-im1" align="center" format="PNG" />
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
<para>This simple tool<footnote><para>You can start this tool from the command line, by typing <emphasis role="bold">diskdrake --fileshare</emphasis> as root.</para></footnote> allows you, the administrator, to allow users to
share parts of their own /home subdirectories with other users of a same
local network which may have computers running either Linux or Windows
operating system.</para>
<para>It is found in the Mageia Control Center, under the Local Disk tab,
labelled "Share your hard disk partitions".</para>
<para>First, answer the question : "<guilabel>Would you like to allow users
to share some of their directories ?</guilabel>", click on <guibutton>No
sharing</guibutton> if the answer is no for all users, click on
<guibutton>Allow all users</guibutton> for all users and click on
<guibutton>Custom</guibutton> if the answer is no for some users and yes for
the others. In this last case, the users that are authorised to share their
directories must belong to the fileshare group, which is automatically
created by the system. You will be asked about this later.</para>
<para>Click on <guilabel>OK</guilabel>, a second screen appears which asks
you choose between <guibutton>NFS</guibutton> or <guibutton>SMB</guibutton>.
Check <guibutton>NFS</guibutton> if Linux is the only operating system on
the network, check <guibutton>SMB</guibutton> if the network includes both
Linux and Windows machines and then click on <guibutton>OK</guibutton>. Any
required packages will be installed if necessary.</para>
<para>The configuration is now complete unless the Custom option was chosen.
In this case, an extra screen prompts you to open Userdrake. This tool
allows you to add users authorised to share their directories to the
fileshare group. In the User tab, click on the user to add to the fileshare
group, then on <guimenuitem>Edit</guimenuitem>, In the Groups tab. Check the
fileshare group and click on <guibutton>OK</guibutton>. For more information
about Userdrake, see <xref linkend="userdrake">this page</xref></para>
<para/>
<note>
<para>When adding a new user to the fileshare group, you have to
disconnect and reconnect the network for the modifications to be taken
into account.</para>
</note>
<para>From now on each user belonging to the fileshare group can select in
his/her file manager the directories to be shared, although not all file
managers have this facility.</para>
</section>
|
