05-11-2025, 05:38 AM
Glad you've got it working.
Samba has to be flexible to deal with the problems involved in transferring files between systems. Flexibility requires complexity (lots of options) which in turn means plenty of opportunity to get it wrong. As you've found, there's lots of information out there. Filtering out what is relevant to achieve a specific requirement is not easy.
denotes the top-most directory in the hierarchy. Strictly speaking this directory has no name but it is 'the root directory'.
I've not aware of a specific collective name for the items in the root directory.
By 'root has a whole different meaning here' I guess you are referring to the Linux superuser account which can be known as root. As a user, root will have a home directory (actually called root) in the (nameless) root directory.
Samba has to be flexible to deal with the problems involved in transferring files between systems. Flexibility requires complexity (lots of options) which in turn means plenty of opportunity to get it wrong. As you've found, there's lots of information out there. Filtering out what is relevant to achieve a specific requirement is not easy.
Quote:Oh one last question. In windows 'C:\' is called the root, and root has a whole different meaning here I know. But is there a name for files at that level of '/'?In Linux file systems, the slash symbol
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/I've not aware of a specific collective name for the items in the root directory.
By 'root has a whole different meaning here' I guess you are referring to the Linux superuser account which can be known as root. As a user, root will have a home directory (actually called root) in the (nameless) root directory.
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