Re: best practices for an external hard drive that many hosts might use?

["Brendan Kidwell-2" <user=1552@nabble.blu.org>]

 That sounds crazy enough to work. It might be a while before I have time to 
play with it, but if I do, I'll post my scripts and solution on the web and 
share it here. 

Thanks for the suggestion. 

On 11/27/07, Derek Martin <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> I think I thought of a way to do it though... use Samba.  Requires 
> root access to the machine though, and it's been so long since I've 
> messed with samba, I'm not totally sure it would work.  It should be 
> possible though... Samba itself runs as root (or used to, I'm not even 
> sure about that anymore) so should have no problems accessing the 
> files.  Then you just need to tell it to share the whole hard drive as 
> a public share with read/write access, and re-mount it someplace else. 
> I think that would work.  I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm 
> wrong though. ;-) 
>