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monktus - Sep 7, 2007 - 8:13 am

My fiance has just bought a Philips laptop running Vista Home Premium that I'm setting up with our Mac network. I have two volumes on our media server and have managed to map the home folder for the server's main login to a network drive, however I can't figure out how to do the same for the whole volume, or indeed for the second drive (which stores most of our video).

As far as I remember, I encountered this problem with 2000/XP a few years ago and never managed to resolve it. Mapping the drives to network volumes isn't essential, I just thought it would be the easiest way of accessing them. Any ideas how to mount the volumes as opposed to just the home directory? Thanks.

vladx - Sep 9, 2007 - 10:39 am

It sounds like you are attempting to mount an entire Mac Volume from your Mac to Vista. If I understand right this is how I would do it:

Turning on "Windows File Sharing" in the sharing section of System Prefs ony turns on home directories. However since all this is doing is using Samba to share out the folders, You can simply edit the /etc/smb.conf file (as root) on the command line (using vi or pico...or CLI editor of choice.) and add a section for the volume. Look to the conf file itself for examples of options you could set for instance if you wanted readonly you could add:

[Volume Hardrive]
path=/Volumes/Harddrive
public=no
readonly=yes

(where harddrive is the name of the volume you wish to share out)

Once you have added this simply restart "Windows File Sharing" in the Sharing section of System Preferences and browse the Mac with the Vista system and you should be able to mount the drive Read-Only

You can change up the options however you want. (IE Readonly=no.....public=yes....readwrite=yes, etc...)