Hello Frank!

Friday February 15 2008 12:09, Frank van den Heuvel wrote to All:

 FvdH> Thanks a lot for your info/howto.

 FvdH> In my case it turned out to be even more simple. I can edit smb.conf
 FvdH> with vi. Add the 'ea support = yes' line to the definitions for
 FvdH> several shares. Save and reboot (didn't find the samba restart). The
 FvdH> smb.conf doesn't get rewritten at startup. And the shares are usable
 FvdH> from the WPS now.

 FvdH> Then the next test was reconfiguring smb shares in the web interface.
 FvdH> It turns out that 'ea support = yes' is not destroyed.

 FvdH> This is miraculous, I can now merge the storage for all my systems in
 FvdH> one place and stop bothering about the use of 4 different OS-es in my
 FvdH> SOHO.

What are you using for your NAS device?  I've been considering moving my
main file storage to such a device, rather than keep throwing bigger and
bigger disks into my other machines.

Andrew

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