Best car ever! :: Cleary a sexy suzuki 4WD

New photo at flickr! :: Cleary a sexy suzuki 4WD

Originally uploaded by Callum Jones.

Forget my love for the Chrysler 300C, this is clearly a sexy car!

Back from the dead!

I am back from the dead!
Sorry about lack of posting, but here I am now.

I have been busy the past 2 weeks with the college musical, doing the lighting for it.
It was an amazing show and the cast and crew were awesome!

FreeNAS :: extending the CIFS shares

I installed FreeNAS because I was sick of my poorly configured Samba on CentOS constantly hanging up and crashing the computers that were writing to it, so I decided to try FreeNAS.

I installed it and got my 300GB drive working perfectly, now for sharing. Sharing works fine yet I cannot edit how Samba shares each folder on the drive, I can only share a full mounted drive. There had to be a way, through the config!

Now FreeNAS doesn’t use the normal SAMBA config file location, it has placed it in /var/etc/smb.conf

I will show you how to edit and restrict users.

BUT AFTER USING THIS, DO NOT USE THE CIFS PAGE TO EDIT SAMBA! YOU HAVE TO USE THIS!

So first, go to the WebGUI and look for Edit File after Diagnostics (you will need to click Diagnostics first)

In the Edit File page, go to the File path: and type /var/etc/smb.conf and click Load.

Once loaded you should see a large config file, scroll down to the bottom to edit the mount points.

You should see your mount point in [xxxx] then a bunch of variables after it. My mount point is called nas

[nas]
comment =
path = /mnt/nas Here I can set if I want to share a certain directory. I have a folder called public inside the drive, so below I have made another share.
public = yes Should I secure it?
writeable = yes Can people write to it?
printable = no
#Old veto line that create problem with ‘icon’ named file for example
#veto files = /Network Trash Folder/Icon?/:2e*/.AppleDesktop/.AppleDB/.AppleDouble/TheFindByContentFolder/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/Temporary Items/.snap/
#This next line can (hide dot file) can be enough:
hide dot files = yes
guest ok = no

And now below I have shared a specific folder inside nas. As you can see I have set a valid user, after creating a User in the FreeNAS I will limit only cjones to logon to it.

[public]
comment = My Public share
path = /mnt/nas/public
public = no
writeable = yes
valid users = cjones
printable = no
#Old veto line that create problem with ‘icon’ named file for example
#veto files = /Network Trash Folder/Icon?/:2e*/.AppleDesktop/.AppleDB/.AppleDouble/TheFindByContentFolder/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/Temporary Items/.snap/
#This next line can (hide dot file) can be enough:
hide dot files = yes
guest ok = no

And we are done!

Just paste that into the config file at the end, wait a minute for Samba to reload the configuration!

Holiday begins tomorrow!

Tomorrow is when I leave for Melbourne for a Drama trip, it is going to be amazing and I cannot wait.

I will be away for a week so have a great Easter!

Perth’s only Gaming Expo – Pictures

Me and some other photographers snapped some pictures at GO3, which is a Gaming Expo that is as close to E3 and CES that Perth will get.
It was interesting and it open me up to wider a tech community than I thought existed in Perth, but it would of been nice for bigger companies to have a larger prescence there instead of just computer shops.
There is always next year!

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