November 12, 2012

Samba Home Shares and Windows 7 Home Edition

Alright, I've been tracking to rack my brain on figuring out how to share my /home directory in Samba and have it work correctly with Windows 7 Home. If you know or know someone who knows how to get to this to work, please contact me.

I have a user on linux called sigrejas and my Windows 7 user is called Steve. Whenever I try to log into \\mediaserver\sigrejas I get login credentials. I pass my sigrejas username and password, and it doesn't let me log into it! Here's the relevant smb.conf file.

Switching from JBOD to LVM RAID5

Before getting into the nitty-gritty, I want to make sure we have some understanding of the tools in place. For the sake of argument, we...