Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:55:57 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba and RAID 1 using gmirror on 2 new disks Message-ID: <200704191555.57840.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <14876.14778.qm@web58105.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <14876.14778.qm@web58105.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:24:36 pm L Goodwin wrote: > Hello. I have a server with 3 SCSI drives. FreeBSD is installed on da0 > (4.3GB), and da1 and da2 (both identical 9GB drives) are to be used in a > RAID 1 array for file storage on a LAN with Windows XP and Vista clients, > using Samba to share the filesystem on da1. Backups will be taken from da2. > > Drives da1 and da2 are currently "unused" (reclaimed from a Windows > server). I have not done anything to prepare these 2 drives yet. > > I also have not configured Samba yet. > > Please walk me through the process of setting up a FreeBSD 6.2 fileserver > given these conditions? > > I tried configuring the RAID1 array using the following sources, but got > judging from the errors I got, it looks like I need to prepare da1/da2 > first: > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html man gmirror man newfs man mount man fstab man smb.conf man samba gmirror label -b load sambavol /dev/da1 /dev/da2 newfs -U /dev/mirror/sambavol mkdir /sambavol mount /dev/mirror/sambavol /sambavol echo '/dev/mirror/sambavol /sambavol ufs rw 2 2' >> /etc/fstab The samba config depends a log on how you want to use the share and handle authentication and permissions, etc. The sample config file has most of what you need. Here's a starting point for a section to share a /sambavol directory with a samba share name of sambavol: [sambavol] path = /sambavol browseable = yes writable = yes printable = no You will of course need a correctly configured global section and you'll probably want additional entries in the volume section like "public", "guest ok", "only guest", etc. JN
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