Dumb question

[HHogan]

I have an extra large harddrive in my G5 that I'm using to store various video files. It isn't the system disk, and I've enabled Windows file sharing, but I can't figure out how to access the secondary drive. It only lets me browse and access the main disk...

Any help would be appreciated.

[Brad]

Browse additional drives by going to /Volumes on the main drive.

I haven't used Windows file sharing, but that's how it works for just about everything else.

[HHogan]

Yeah, that's what I was originally looking for. But it seems to have loaded the home directory only. It lists:

Applications
Desktop
Documents
Library
Movies
Music
Pictures
Public
Sites

[Brad]

Hmm. Have you tried putting an alias to the second drive in your home folder?

[HHogan]

Yep, even tried it in the Public folder, isn't recognized by Windows.

[HHogan]

Anyone else ?

[Ebby]

I didn't actually do this, but found it in the apple support site. I too, am a bit interested in this. Apple filesharing allows me to log into external drives so I rarely run into this problem. When I do use a PC, I just log on to the PC using my Mac and transfer it that way. But your situation does have merit and I hope that feature is added in 10.4. Here it goes:

Open a terminal session and make yourself root (type su, press enter and then give it your admin password). Then type:
pico /etc/smb.conf
Once you are in the Pico editor, CTRL-V your way to the bottom of the file and add the following lines:

[Volumes]
path = /Volumes
valid users = Joe Jason Jill
admin users = Joe
public = no
write list = Joe Jason Jill
writeable = yes

Substitute your list of short user names where I have Joe, Jason, etc.

Hit CTRL-X to exit Pico, "Y" to save your changes and just press return for the file name to keep the same one. Then go to System Preferences, Sharing. Select Personal File Sharing and hit the STOP button. Then hit the START button to re-start it. Do the same for Windows File Sharing.