External USB Disks

[dacscomp]

Hi

After doing several searches, have not found any appropriate posts - Hopefully you will point me in the right direction.

What is the procedure/Actions required to set up an external HD on the system (to be formatted as ext2 or ext3) ie from disk initialisation to mounting.

I am familiar with Samba sharing, so it's only the required disk preparation steps.

Thanks in advance

[NewIT_Marcus]

• Partition the drive using fdisk
• Format partition(s) with your choice of file system
• Mount partition(s)

Automatic mounts are listed in /etc/fstab, manual mount is with a command such as:

Code:

mount /mnt/my-usb-drive /dev/sda1

webmin will give you a point & click method of mounting.

[dacscomp]

Apologies for appearing dumb but...

I'm still having problems here.

Is there a step by step guide for setting up an external disk using webmin

ie  how do I delete existing partions on the disk using webmin?

what is used to create the linux file system in webmin?

Then, what/how should this disk be mounted...

Can you point me to any documentation regarding this.

Regards

[peter a]

How I do it is using the shell to make the file system and mount the drive.

eg - mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdXX or mkfs.ex3 /dev/sdXX

mount /dev/sdXX /mnt/YOUR_MOUNT_POINT


Use Webmin after that :-

Partition and Local disks  >  Save and mount at save ( Yes )  >  Save

[dacscomp]

Thanks
Have got the disk mounted OK as per above but still can't get the sharing to work.

I can see the device on the windows network, but I am getting 
"\\plugserv is not accessible...
                                          ...The Network path was not found."

Apologies for appearing dumb here.  Where should I be looking for the next step?

Regards

[NewIT_Marcus]

If you are trying to read data from the Sheevaplug on a Windows PC, you need to configure Samba on the plug.

[dacscomp]

I have had several attempts at setting up Samba Sharing using webmin and get the results as described above.

Is it easier to set up using command line rather than webmin - where can I find relevant info.

Regards

[Confusticated]

As your questions are 'webmin specific' as opposed to 'sheeva specific' would you be better off asking them on a webmin forum site ?

[peter a]

Just keep changing setting like the ones in :- Samba server > Windows networking ....

AND DON`T FORGET TO "reset samba server"

[NewIT_Marcus]

I have had several attempts at setting up Samba Sharing using webmin and get the results as described above.

Is it easier to set up using command line rather than webmin - where can I find relevant info.

Regards

Well, I found this on the webmin website, personally I'd do it manually. Samba configuration is in /etc/samba/smb.conf. There's some info to get you started on the Ubuntu help pages

[kesey]

The simplest way I've found to get Samba working on various Linux platforms is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deb2jRm3c7g

If you follow those instructions you will have it up an running in 5 minutes.


If you want, have a read of this one also (a little more technical orientated than the one by Nixie above):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89hjWOb8qmY&annotation_id=annotation_888326&feature=iv

[dacscomp]

Many thanks to you all...

Finally done it OK.

I found this article

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/299651:samba-configuration-with-webmin

very useful