[Samba] Samba sharing ramdisk

[Alessandro Siniscalchi]

Alessandro Siniscalchi wrote:

> Hi all,
> i have a problem with samba server:
>
> I created a ramdisk ( /dev/rd/1 ) with ext2 fs
> I mounted it on a directory that after I shared by samba.
> The problem is that when I mount it by smbfs on a machine it cannot 
> set correctly the size of the device:
>
> # df -a
> ...
> /dev/rd/1                 7931       115      7407   2% /mnt/tmp
> //localhost/prueba           0         0         0   -  
> /home/alex/Desktop/mnt
>
> with /mnt/tmp shared with name prueba.
>
> mount output:
> ...
> /dev/rd/1 on /mnt/tmp type ext2 (rw)
> //localhost/prueba on /home/alex/Desktop/mnt type smbfs (0)
>
> How could let samba server work like usually works with real shared 
> folder?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alessandro Siniscalchi
>
>
Hi, I have another strange thing: if in the ramdisk I mount any device 
... the samba share put it with 0 size..

Help

Alex