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Thank you so much for the clarity of your instructions! I absolutely love your website and its resources!

I have reached a road block on my way to Ubuntu Server nirvana and I hope a word or two from you can set me straight.

The goal is to access and write files to an external hard drive attached to the server from various Windows and Ubuntu machines around the house.

I have installed Samba on an Ubuntu server (12.04) I have gone through the Webmin setup and successfully created and shared the test folder outlined in your tutorial http://www.havetheknowhow.com/Configure ... lders.html.

What stumps me is navigating to the external drive in the "Choose Directory" screen. Fdisk -l points me to the "/dev" folder, but I do not find the subfolder which contains the "sdb" text fdisk lists.

It also does not recognize this "sdb" name when I try to mount the drive.

I have used Ubuntu before and feel comfortable in a terminal screen, but this is my first experience with a dedicated server.

This is the fdisk information I see:

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8d399bc0

Thanks!

Hi there and thank you for your kind words

Ubuntu should automatically mount external drives in the "media" folder (so /media/YourUSBDrive). This folder is the one you want to share when referring to "Choose Directory" on that HTKH page.

Maybe also check out this page?: http://www.havetheknowhow.com/Configure ... rives.html

Does that help?

Ian.