I'm sure this should be easy but I'm getting nowhere with Google...
I've created a directory, /backup, which contains symlinks to a number of directories I want to backup across the network (eg /var/lib/mysql is symlinked into that dir).
I need to create a samba share which provides read access to all files in that directory. So far I have: [backups] comment = Backups force group = root force user = root path = /backups writeable = no
.. but the contents of the directories (like /var/lib/mysql) are not accessible.
What am I doing wrong?
Mark,
Have you tried adding:
follow symlinks=yes
to your smb.conf? This has worked for me in the past where its been set otherwise, I believe yes is the default in Gentoo nowadays but your distro may vary.
Jim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rogers" mark@quarella.co.uk To: "ALUG - mailing list" main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Monday, 22 December, 2008 13:25:44 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [ALUG] Backups via samba share
I'm sure this should be easy but I'm getting nowhere with Google...
I've created a directory, /backup, which contains symlinks to a number of directories I want to backup across the network (eg /var/lib/mysql is symlinked into that dir).
I need to create a samba share which provides read access to all files in that directory. So far I have: [backups] comment = Backups force group = root force user = root path = /backups writeable = no
.. but the contents of the directories (like /var/lib/mysql) are not accessible.
What am I doing wrong?
Jim Rippon wrote:
Have you tried adding:
follow symlinks=yes
Adding it made no difference (I think it was set by default anyway).
I can get to //IP.ADDRESS/backups/mysql but cannot get into any of the database directories below that, so I believe it is a permissions issue.
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Jim Rippon -
Mark Rogers