RE: [cobalt-users] windows/apple file sharing

[<rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm having a problem with my Qube 2.  It tells me that that 
> my user space is near capacity at 86%.  I have 1000MB alocated
> for my username and I have 10.3MB of data in my user dir.  The
> Qube looks like it keeps track of all data transfered for each
> user and counts that as user data, whether it is on a user dir
> or not.

You don't sound like you have a lot of knowledge about Linux. FYI,
before thinking about sharing you need to think about permissions
and ownership. See, your username owns a bunch of files on the
server, regardless of where they are, and this is what adds to
your total. Perhaps you're doing what I did at first, which is
set up a huge number of shared files that people were going to
be downloading and owning them myself.

Find files that you don't want to count toward your total, and
make someone else own them. The command to change ownership is
"chown [newowner] [filename]" and if you need more detail, type
"man chown". No quotes, of course.

For example, I store product manuals and brochures on our Qube
for our people and our customers to download at any point. I
don't own those files any more: root does, and I've set the
permissions so that anyone can read them. For more on setting
permissions, type "man chmod".

> I've created a couple of user groups that have 1000MB a piece
> and the free space does not register for mac or windows users.
> The free space available for the group is all relative as to
> how much free space there is for the user.

Remember that there are other filesystem limitations to keep in
mind as well. Unfortunately, the mere fact of running Windows
machines on a network with anything non-Windows is a problem,
since you already know that Windows often doesn't play nice and
follow the rules. So the limitations of the Mac and Windows OS's
will hamper you too.

I forget who makes Samba, but of course you might try checking
out http://www.samba.org. I'm sure someone will post the right
URL before I have the chance to correct myself, but I'll look
anyway.

You'll find the Qube enormously useful, but anything in the
computer, networking, and Internet world requires some learning
in order for you to manage and coexist with it. Come to think of
it, so did my wife... :)

-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz
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