Re: samba problems (rather Access programmers)

[Christoph Simon <ciccio@prestonet.com.br>]

> I have a friend who wants to get rid of NT and change to linux+Samba but
> we have "minor" problems. The first is : the stupid Access programers
> coded the path into code statically. So the program search the dbm files
> at \\SERVER\\ACCDOC and more he has to "map" the "network drive" under E:
> . But the ACCDOC is under a folder SOLTSYS. So the structure is
> Soltsys\accdoc . Here comes the problem. The Soltsys at server has to be
> seen as P: . Summarize : \\SERVER\SOLTSYS has to be mapped as P: and
> \\SERVER\SOLTSYS\ACCDOC has to be mapped as E: . The rules from our
> smb.conf are included. Please help me set up the directory structure and
> shares that the users can access the dirs with right "mapped drivers".
> Any help appriciated.
> Thanks,
> Ago

With...

[SOLTSYS]
  comment = Soltsys
  path = /home/soltsys
  public = yes
  writeable = yes
  printable = no
  write list = @users
  create mask = 0765

[ACCDOC]
  comment = Soltsys
  path = /home/soltsys/accdoc
  public = yes
  writeable = yes
  printable = no
  write list = @users
  create mask = 0765

you get two shares in the guindoz browser; just map them to the letter
you'd like.

HTH

Christoph Simon
ciccio@prestonet.com.br

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