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> #1 - userland mounted external hard drives (/media) are not really
> suitable for using with samba. Samba expects a root mount. Put your
> entry into /etc/fstab for this external drive, mount it and leave it
> alone. To get ACL's, I think you are going to need a file system that
> supports extended attributes (and of course use them in /etc/fstab)
> which tends to leave out the typical FAT/VFAT filesystems used in many
> external hard drives.
>    
NFS can do this as it emulates NTFS (or any other filesystem it 
supports). Generally, if you are NFS'ing
an NTFS FS, then there are no worries. vfat (fat32) and fat aren't 
usually supported as extended
attributes aren't supported. ext2, ext3, reiserfs,  and most others 
(including HPFS+) are supported
and work very well.
> #2 - you can create samba users/groups but they should either be the
> same as system users/groups or you have to specifically map them. Note
> that samba users have to have a password too.
>    
complicated :). NFS might be a better choice. if you are using windows 
as a client, you can
get Services for Unix (SFU) freely available from Microsoft. NFS is 
fully supported under
OS X, linux, and UNIX. As far as I know, windows needs an add-on 
(plug-in) to support it.
> #3 - You should probably set group permissions and even use group sticky
> bits on subdirectories.
>
>    
should be SOP (at least it was for me)
> Craig
>
>
>
>    

TMH
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