how to auto mount hotpluged usb drive?

[mmoalem]

hi there all - running my server on pro. linux automounts usb drives as i plug them in but samba doesnt - anyway i can get samba to automatically share drives as they are plugged in?

[moonman]

You can share the directory where the drives mount (/media ?). The only drawback is that samba will report the free space of your roots partition and not the mounted drive so if you have less free space in that partition than the the size of the batch of files you are trying to write - it will fail ( unless things have changed since samba 3)

[WarheadsSE]

You would have to have a script that triggers to restart samba after managing some sort of default-config-per-folder addition/removal logic.

[jeajea]

The mount point name(s) are based on the partition labels and are case sensitive.
For the boot drive I label the second partition Linux-sda2.
I label a data drive ArchLinux with a sub directories 0Quick and 0Movies.
As a catch all I create a share for /run/media/root.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# The following two entries demonstrate how to share a directory so that two
# users can place files there that will be owned by the specific users. In this
# setup, the directory should be writable by both users and should have the
# sticky bit set on it to prevent abuse. Obviously this could be extended to
# as many users as required.
;[myshare]
; comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff
; path = /usr/somewhere/shared
; valid users = mary fred
; public = no
; writable = yes
; printable = no
; create mask = 0765

[share]
path = /run/media/root/Linux-sda2
public = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes

[movies]
path = /run/media/root/ArchLinux/0Movies
public = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes

[share1]
path = /run/media/root/ArchLinux
public = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes

[share2]
path = /
public = yes
writeable = no
guest ok = yes

[share3]
path = /run/media/root
public = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes

[quick]
path = /run/media/root/ArchLinux/0Quick
public = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes

#')