I picked up a Dell 4300 server for nothing (about what it was worth!) and am turning it into a file server here at the office. I ran a file server with Mepis, but this one has a collection of 6 drives with a total of about 100 gig storage, so I decided to do the "span/stripe" thing and install across all 6 drives. Can't do that with Mepis, so I went with Fedorah core 4. Pretty nice...., but if you don't turn off the security for the firewall (not just make your eth0 a "trusted" device, but turn OFF the samba security), you will spend all weekend cursing trying to figure out why you are getting the "network path not found" in your windoze boxes.
Anyway, I want to set up a chron job to rsync files from all 5 of the office machines, and I realized I don't have a clue as to where to find the files. Do I have to edit the fstab file to get it to mount, for example, //frontdesk/q/blah blah blah? With mepis, when you go out and click on the graphic pic of the network, it is "mounted" so that you can go in and just link up with the remote drive like it is local (the samba shares are listed in the home directory).
I try mount //frontdesk/.......and it tells me it can't find anything.
Anyone out there know a good idiot proof resource for Fedora, or better yet, someone here want to tell me what I need to do to mount remote drives in a terminal environment?
Thanks in advance