[Cialug] Sharing OSX share to Linux-based MythTV

[Bryan Baker]

Or - do what is considered best practice on the platform and leave  
root alone, and sudo any commands that need root priv's. most of the  
time that ammounts to "sudo vi smb.conf" or whatever.

On Nov 21, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> Or you can do sudo -s and get a root shell that way too
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:59 -0600, Tom Pohl wrote:
>> sudo passwd root
>> to set root's password and then you can su like any other box :)
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, this is the first time I've done something like this on OSX.  I
>>> need root priv's but can't seem to get it.  FWIW this is a new
>>> box...what do I need to do?
>>>
>>> --Tony
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>>>> You can change the share name it exports from osx box with.  I  
>>>> don't
>>>> remember off top of my head on the regular desktop if you can do it
>>>> easily, but worst case since you have your share already setup,  
>>>> just
>>>> edit /etc/smb.conf and change the share name.  You'll have to
>>>> reboot or
>>>> just restart samba services with SystemStarter restart samba.
>>>> Dan
>>>> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 19:47 -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>> I've got a mostly working MythTV box on Gentoo.  I'd like to
>>>>> simply mount my iTunes library on my OSX box from Gentoo.
>>>>>
>>>>> First problem is samba shares don't seem to like spaces in the
>>>>> name.  Or , at least, I don't know how to make them work via
>>>>> fstab.  The file system I'm trying to mount is:
>>>>>
>>>>> //server/user/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/
>>>>>
>>>>> If there is a way to put that in fstab please holla.  I tried a
>>>>> few different things ("iTunes\ Music", etc) to no avail.
>>>>>
>>>>> My other thought was to simply symlink //server/user/MusicSymLink
>>>>> to the iTunes folder but that gives errors about a bad share name.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> --Tony
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